I have setup radius to log detail files for radrelay to use. I think that I followed the documentation exactly except for the name of the detail file. detail detail-combined { detailfile = ${radacctdir}/detail-combined detailperm = 0600 dirperm = 0755 locking = yes } accounting { detail detail-combined } FreeRadius logs to this file properly if I don't startup radrelay and the permissions remain as I would expect they should: -rw------- 1 radiusd radiusd 1166 Mar 31 12:02 detail-combined But when I start radrelay the permissions change: [root@ns1-new radacct]# radrelay -a /var/log/radius/radacct \ -d /etc/raddb -n ns2-new detail-combined [root@ns1-new radacct]# ls -la total 44 drwx------ 9 radiusd radiusd 4096 Mar 31 12:08 . drwx------ 3 radiusd radiusd 4096 Mar 31 12:02 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Mar 31 11:42 127.0.0.1 drwxr-xr-x 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Mar 17 16:17 216.17.128.39 drwxr-xr-x 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 7 00:30 216.237.65.2 drwxr-xr-x 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Mar 31 00:00 216.237.67.198 drwxr-xr-x 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Mar 31 09:34 216.237.67.217 drwxr-xr-x 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Feb 14 09:49 216.237.72.66 drwxr-xr-x 2 radiusd radiusd 4096 Mar 31 10:39 216.237.77.3 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 31 12:08 detail-combined [root@ns1-new radacct]# I start getting error like this in my radius.log which I would expect with the file permissions the way they are and radiusd cannot log to the detail file properly and as a result, radrelay cannot send the accounting request to the remote server: Fri Mar 31 12:11:13 2006 : Error: rlm_detail: Couldn't open file /var/log/radius/radacct/detail-combined: Permission denied Am I missing something with the way I am starting up radrelay? Or are there permissions that I need to check somewhere else? Should radrelay be run as user radiusd? If so, how would I do that? Also. My system is running Fedora Core 4 - FreeRadius Ver 1.0.4 Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks -- "Microsoft is not the answer, it's the question. NO is the answer." Ben Plimpton Network Engineer bplimpton@sopris.net 970-963-SURF(7873) ext 5174 www.sopris.com