1)Before running "radius -X" what all steps should be completed?
... www.deployingradius.com, follow the how to ... and really and I mean REALLY read the documentation in the conf files ... all of them. Print them out in color ... all of them. Spread them out all over your work surface, make piles, arrange them in the order they will be processed in, etc. This is not a joke, it really helped me make sense of the program.
2)what should be the subdirectory structure for freeradius and where it should be formed in the directory structure?
... assuming you didn't change anything in the compilation command then on centOS it was in /usr/local/etc/raddb when I installed from source however this is related to your third question
3)which sub directory should I give the "radius -X" command. ... this is really a general linux question, if you cant find the radius command try " locate radius" in your favorite shell, if you haven't rebuilt your locate DB since you installed then "man locate" will be your best friend.
Alan, I hope it is ok to plug your site, I found it an invaluable tool : ) Jake Sallee Godfather Of Bandwidth Network Engineer Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 From: freeradius-users-bounces+jake.sallee=umhb.edu@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+jake.sallee=umhb.edu@lists.freeradius.o rg] On Behalf Of kartik dadwal Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:39 PM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: Encountering error when using "radius -X" Hi, I have ubuntu 9.10. Can you please tell me 1)Before running "radius -X" what all steps should be completed? 2)what should be the subdirectory structure for freeradius and where it should be formed in the directory structure? 3)which sub directory should I give the "radius -X" command. I guess these steps might help me nail down why I am getting this error : radiusd: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeradius-radius-2.1.0.so <http://libfreeradius-radius-2.1.0.so/> : cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory When I run "radius -X" under "/home/kartik/Downloads/freeradius-2.1.0+dfsg/" Thank you. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Fabien COMBERNOUS <fcombernous@kezia.com> wrote: kartik dadwal wrote: Hi, @Fablen: I first used "synaptic packet manger" to install free radius as it synaptic pkt. manger takes care of the dependencies. After insatlling freeradius through the synaptic pkt. manger I could not find any of the freeradius subdirectories. So, I removed freeradius completely again using synaptic manager. Then I decided to download .tar.gz file from the link that I had sent earlier and ran: ./configure make make install I just got one error for some particular package, I googled the error and insatlled "libltdl-dev" package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libltdl-dev After that everything went smoothly and I did face any error. I am sure all dependencies were found. can you also tell me why I don't have "raddb" in /etc/ ?. It makes me believe as If there something is wrong (which might ot might noe be true!!) The /etc/raddb is the default settings. In my debian box, radius files are in the directry /etc/freeradius/ In general you can get the list of the files from a deb package with the command line : $> dpkg -L <name of the package> Here we have : $> dpkg -L freeradius | grep etc /etc /etc/pam.d /etc/pam.d/radiusd /etc/init.d /etc/init.d/freeradius /etc/freeradius /etc/freeradius/preproxy_users /etc/freeradius/policy.conf /etc/freeradius/sites-enabled /etc/freeradius/clients.conf /etc/freeradius/sqlippool.conf /etc/freeradius/templates.conf /etc/freeradius/attrs.accounting_response /etc/freeradius/attrs /etc/freeradius/certs /etc/freeradius/hints /etc/freeradius/experimental.conf /etc/freeradius/users /etc/freeradius/huntgroups ... -- *Fabien COMBERNOUS* /unix system engineer/ www.kezia.com <http://www.kezia.com/> *Tel: +33 (0) 467 992 986* Kezia Group - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html -- Best Regards Kartik