Re: radiusd not starting

["Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch" <pkoch@bgc-jena.mpg.de>]

Hi,

but even as root:root it's not working !
Shouldn't there be a access denied or smoething like this ?

Here is the startup:

############## more Rad2.log#####################
FreeRADIUS Version 2.0.3, for host i686-suse-linux-gnu, built on Mar 19 
2008 at 10:23:16
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.
Starting - reading configuration files ...
including configuration file /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/proxy.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/clients.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/snmp.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/eap.conf
including dictionary file /etc/raddb/dictionary
main {
        prefix = "/usr"
        localstatedir = "/var"
        logdir = "/var/log/radius"
        libdir = "/usr/lib/freeradius"
        radacctdir = "/var/log/radius/radacct"
        hostname_lookups = no
        max_request_time = 80
        cleanup_delay = 5
        max_requests = 1024
        allow_core_dumps = no
        pidfile = "/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid"
        user = "root"
        group = "root"
        checkrad = "/usr/sbin/checkrad"
        debug_level = 0
        proxy_requests = yes
 security {
        max_attributes = 200
        reject_delay = 1
        status_server = no
 }


A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> > we updated yesterday one of our server running Novell SLES 9.
> > After the update the "raidusd" (not the sles version, self compiled)
> > did not work correctly (the load was getting higher and higher).
> >
> > Therefore I installed the current version of the
> > freeradius-server (2.0.3) from
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/aaa/
> >
> > After fixing a few things in the /etd/raddb/users
> > the server is running fine, when I do a
> >    radiusd -X
> > also
> >     radius -f
> > seem's to work.
> >
> > But neither a
> > radiusd
> > not
> > /etc/init.d/freeradius start
> > is launching the radiusd-Daemon. But I can not see
> > WHY the raidusd is not starting as daemon.
> >
> > Any idea ?
>
> permissions - and if you ran "radiusd -x" you might even see that - 
> its probably unabled to read some /etc/raddb files, or write to /var/log/radius
> etc etc -
>
> alan
> -
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