UNCLASSIFIED From: freeradius-users-bounces+frank.ranner=defence.gov.au@lists.freeradius.or g [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+frank.ranner=defence.gov.au@lists.freer adius.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 03:04 To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: radiusd service do not start Hi, I installed freeradius to manage the wifi network of our organization (17 wifi ap) It works well when launched in command line (radiusd -X), but I can't make it work as a service, 'Service radiusd start' seems to work, but radius close immediately after, so a status will say that radiusd is dead, but subsys is locked. That indicates a permissions problem. When you run radiusd -X it runs as root. When you start as a service it switches to the user specified in radiusd.conf, usually radiusd. Try: strace -f -e open,stat radiusd and look for lines with EPERM indicating files that failed to open because of permission fails. These will probably be owned by root. regards, Frank Ranner