Hi Rose, Thanks for the response. The problem is now fixed. The issue was that a mistake in the PID file path in /etc/systemd/system/freeradiusd.service It should have been PIDFile=/var/run/freeradius/freeradius.pid whereas I had it as (with an extra 'd') PIDFile=/var/run/freeradiusd/freeradius.pid I corrected it and it worked :). Previously it didn't hint anything about it in the systemctl output. There was no additional output in systemd output. Now, the output from 'systemctl status freeradiusd' is: ● freeradiusd.service - FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/freeradiusd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-11-26 17:47:16 AEDT; 5min ago Docs: man:radiusd(8) man:radiusd.conf(5) http://wiki.freeradius.org/ http://networkradius.com/doc/ Process: 19686 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown radiusd:radiusd /var/run/freeradiusd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 19683 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/freeradiusd $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS -Cx -lstdout (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 19692 (freeradiusd) Memory: 10.2M (limit: 2.0G) CGroup: /system.slice/freeradiusd.service └─19692 /usr/sbin/freeradiusd Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: TLSMC: MozNSS compatibility interception ends. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: TLSMC: MozNSS compatibility interception begins. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: tlsmc_convert: INFO: cannot open the NSS DB, expecting PEM configuration is present. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: tlsmc_intercept_initialization: INFO: successfully intercepted TLS initialization. Continuing with OpenSSL only. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: TLSMC: MozNSS compatibility interception ends. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: TLSMC: MozNSS compatibility interception begins. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: tlsmc_convert: INFO: cannot open the NSS DB, expecting PEM configuration is present. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: tlsmc_intercept_initialization: INFO: successfully intercepted TLS initialization. Continuing with OpenSSL only. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au freeradiusd[19689]: TLSMC: MozNSS compatibility interception ends. Nov 26 17:47:16 xxxpoc01.st1.optusnet.com.au systemd[1]: Started FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server. Thanks, Prajosh On 26/11/19 4:49 pm, L. Rose wrote:
journalctl -eu freeradiusd