On 28 October 2013 18:40, <freeradius-users-request@lists.freeradius.org> wrote:

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:02:32 -0200
From: Roberto Carna <robertocarna36@gmail.com>
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Subject: Freeradus service goes down
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Dear, I have a Freeradius server running OK, authenticating against an
AD. The Debian package is 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2 version.

The problem is that the service goes down 2 o 3 times a week, and I
can't know tha cause. I see the /var/log/freeradius/radisu.log but
there is nothing important I think.

When I start the service in this way "service freeradius start", today
the service didn't start, and I have started it with "freeradius -X"
and it runs OK now.

How can I find the origin of the problem the service goes up frequently???

Do you recommend to me start the service with "service freeradius
start" or "freeradius -X"???

Thanks in advance.

Roberto

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Hi Roberto,

We also are authenticating against an AD, and once in a month we have your problem. At the moment we haven't found the cause, nor any logs. Furthermore, what I can tell you is that local authentications starting failing, but users in roaming continue to authenticate, which in itself suggests is some problem in the LDAP part.

The start should not work because in reality in our case the service does not go down, only stops authenticating. So what I do here is to run a script authenticating a local AD user with PEAP-MSCHAP-v2, and once that fails, I stop and start the service (no restart either, as the debian scripts have a peculiarity that if freeradius is down, restart gives an error and does nothing).

Regards