I think of CentOS 5.2, but do I really need to download 7 iso images to put it into work?

Download the DVD version if you have a dvd drive ?


Did you do :

freeradius stop
killall freeradius
ps -fe | grep -i radius
kill -s 9 `ps -fe | grep -i radius`
updatedb
`locate radiusd | grep bin | grep -v rc` -X

That should kill any radius process running and start radius in debug.

didn't understand what you meant... I issued lsof and verified only one service running on 1812 port!
 
You have to make sure NOTHING uses the port BEFORE you start freeradius.


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Philippe-Alexandre Lemelin