Hello, I have compiled Freeradius 3.0.21 successfully and can run it perfectly as radiusd -X. However when I want to run it as Systemd it doesn't work. This is how I have compiled it under Debian 10.9. Do I have to enable any special flag to support systemd? wget ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/freeradius/freeradius-server-3.0.21.tar.gz tar -xvzf freeradius-server-3.0.21.tar.gz cd freeradius-server-3.0.21 sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make install /lib/systemd/system/freeradius.service: [Unit] Description=FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server After=network.target [Service] Type=notify NotifyAccess=all EnvironmentFile=-/usr/local/freeradius ExecStartPre=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS -Cxm -lstdout ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS Restart=on-failure RestartSec=5 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Nothing obvious in syslog: Apr 19 16:29:25 us-sfo-2 systemd[1]: freeradius.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Apr 19 16:29:25 us-sfo-2 systemd[1]: freeradius.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Apr 19 16:29:25 us-sfo-2 systemd[1]: Failed to start FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server. Neither anything useful in journal -x -- The job identifier is 6355. Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: FreeRADIUS Version 3.0.21 Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Copyright (C) 1999-2019 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: PARTICULAR PURPOSE Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: GNU General Public License Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYRIGHT Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Starting - reading configuration files ... Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Debugger not attached Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Built without support for systemd watchdog, but running under systemd. Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Driver rlm_sql_mysql (module rlm_sql_mysql) loaded and linked Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Creating attribute SQL-Group Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Creating attribute Unix-Group Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_cache (cache_eap): Driver rlm_cache_rbtree (module rlm_cache_rbtree) loaded and linked Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Please use tls_min_version and tls_max_version instead of disable_tlsv1 Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Please use tls_min_version and tls_max_version instead of disable_tlsv1_2 Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: tls: Using cached TLS configuration from previous invocation Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: tls: Using cached TLS configuration from previous invocation Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql_mysql: libmysql version: 10.5.9 Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect to database "radius_db" Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Initialising connection pool Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Processing generate_sql_clients Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql) in generate_sql_clients: query is SELECT id, nasname, shortname, type, secret, server FROM nas Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): 0 of 0 connections in use. You may need to increase "spare" Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Opening additional connection (0), 1 of 1 pending slots used Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Reserved connection (0) Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Released connection (0) Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_detail (auth_log): 'User-Password' suppressed, will not appear in detail output Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_mschap (mschap): using internal authentication Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Ignoring "ldap" (see raddb/mods-available/README.rst) Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: # Skipping contents of 'if' as it is always 'false' -- /usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel:336 Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: radiusd: #### Skipping IP addresses and Ports #### Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Configuration appears to be OK Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Removing connection pool Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Closing connection (0) Apr 19 16:37:44 us-sfo-2 sudo[6138]: admin : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/admin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -xe Apr 19 16:37:44 us-sfo-2 sudo[6138]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by admin(uid=0) I would really appreciate your help on this. Thank you Mark