here ya go.. thanks for the info. Jason [root@newjed jason]$radiusd -X radiusd: FreeRADIUS Version 3.0.4, for host x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, built on Mar 5 2015 at 23:41:36 Copyright (C) 1999-2014 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 For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYRIGHT Starting - reading configuration files ... including dictionary file /usr/share/freeradius/dictionary including dictionary file /usr/share/freeradius/dictionary.dhcp including dictionary file /usr/share/freeradius/dictionary.vqp including dictionary file /etc/raddb/dictionary including configuration file /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf including configuration file /etc/raddb/proxy.conf including configuration file /etc/raddb/clients.conf including files in directory /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/ including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/always including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/attr_filter including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/cache_eap including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/chap including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/detail including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/detail.log including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/dhcp including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/digest including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/dynamic_clients including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/eap including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/echo including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/exec including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/expiration including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/expr including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/files including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/linelog including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/logintime including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/mschap including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/ntlm_auth including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/pap including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/passwd including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/preprocess including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/radutmp including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/realm including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/replicate including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/soh including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/sradutmp including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/unix including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/unpack including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/utf8 including configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/ldap No such configuration item ..base_dn /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/ldap[113]: Reference "${..base_dn}" not found Errors reading or parsing /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf --