Freeradius crashes with Ubuntu init script

I can reliably reproduce crashing the freeradius 1.1.7 daemon on my Ubuntu Dapper box by sending it a dozen or so LDAP auth requests in a short period of time. However, this only happens when freeradius is started with the Ubuntu init script that uses start-stop-daemon. This simply runs: start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $PROGRAM However, if I simply run "freeradius" or "freeradius -X" on the command line, the server doesn't crash. When I run gdb, I see that freeradius is actually getting a TERM signal. Has anyone seen this or know what's special about start-stop-daemon that would cause freeradius to exit?