How captive portal restart with CLI?

magura

How captive portal restart with CLI?
Sometimes fail to appear on the authentication page.
So I want to use cron scheduled restart.

Version 2.1.5-RELEASE (i386)
built on Mon Aug 25 07:44:26 EDT 2014
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16

cmb

There isn't a way to "restart" captive portal in that sense.

First, upgrade. Then if the problem recurs, troubleshoot what the problem actually is. Are affected users actually making a HTTP request to be redirected? If so, if they browse straight to the portal page, does it load? Do clients that are already authenticated continue to work?

Gertjan

Probably the "prune cron task" that dies … a problem that was seen more often in the past.
Keeping an old version is keeping old problems ;)

aneip

Most probably lighttpd crash.. Try check the ps output. You can restart lighttpd by selecting Restart WebGUI on the console menu.

jimp

You can restart the lighttpd instance associated with a captive portal at the CLI, but it's different than actually saving on the CP settings to reinitialize the portal:

: ps uxawww | grep "[l]ight.*testz"
root    54907   0.0  2.4  46636  5472  -  S     2:03PM     0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-testzone-CaptivePortal.conf
: pfSsh.php playback svc restart captiveportal testzone

Starting the pfSense developer shell....

Attempting to issue restart to captiveportal service...

captiveportal has been restarted.
: ps uxawww | grep "[l]ight.*testz"
root    58835  1.0  2.4  46636  5472  -  S     2:04PM     0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-testzone-CaptivePortal.conf