Freeradius and NFS

[Wulf Kaiser]

Hi,

after several problems, i managed it to install Freeradius on our NFS Server
(running Solaris 9). The NFS Server exports a part of his '/usr/local' -
including freeradius - to our main LDAP Server and to the Failover Machine.

Starting Freeradius on the main LDAP Server works - it authenticates our
WLAN and VPN Users. But now i want it running on both directory servers to
have a real Failover for Freeradius, too.

So i modified the startscript (also exported via NFS on both machines) and
added:

RAD_CONF=$RADDBDIR/`/usr/bin/uname -n`_radiusd.conf
RAD_PID=$rundir/`/usr/bin/uname -n`_radius.pid

I have also copied the radiusd.conf to ldap_radiusd.conf and
ldapFailover_radiusd.conf and modified both to call machine specific log and
pid files.

Recently, i have done the same with the Apache Web Server, and it works with
the following lines in the start section of apachectl:

$HTTPD -k $ARGV -f $HTTPD_CONF

But how do i tell the radiusd to read another conf than the original
radiusd.conf? Whatever i tried, the output was 

root at ldap<80> /etc/init.d/radius.server start
-n Starting FreeRADIUS:
Sat Oct  1 12:30:52 2005 : Info: Starting - reading configuration files ...
Sat Oct  1 12:30:52 2005 : Error: Unable to open file
"/usr/local/freeradius/etc/radiusd.conf": No such file or directory
Sat Oct  1 12:30:52 2005 : Error: Errors reading radiusd.conf

The uname works, here are some debug outputs:

Reading configuration from /usr/local/freeradius/etc/ldap_radiusd.conf...
Generating PID in /usr/local/freeradius/var/run/radiusd/ldap_radius.pid...

Any Ideas or tipps?


mit freundlichem Gruss,

Wulf Kaiser
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