No, HOSTNAME is not used in default config, as Alan stated before. I believe this is a plateform-specific issue and not really a freeradius issue... Fred 2011/9/29 Ben Brown <bbrown@plus.net>:
It seems environment passed to freeradius at startup does not have HOSTNAME defined.
Which version of debian are you using?
In squeeze /bin/sh is provided by dash, rather than bash, which doesn't seem to set HOSTNAME.
Is HOSTNAME used in the default debian freeradius config? If so I would suggest raising a bug to the maintainer of the debian freeradius package.
Ben
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