Hi I am using MAC OSX server. I was checking out the inbuilt freeradius. I have not altered files related to this service and simply tried radiusd -X The following error was received FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.3, for host i386-apple-darwin10.0, built on Apr 11 2011 at 17:19:07 Copyright (C) 1999-2008 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. Starting - reading configuration files ... including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/proxy.conf including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/clients.conf including files in directory /private/etc/raddb/modules/ including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/acct_unique including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/always including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/attr_filter including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/attr_rewrite including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/chap including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/checkval including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/counter including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/detail including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/detail.example.com including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/detail.log including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/digest including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/echo including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/etc_group including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/exec including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/expiration including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/expr including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/files including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/inner-eap including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/ippool including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/krb5 including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/ldap including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/linelog including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/logintime including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/mac2ip including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/mac2vlan including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/mschap including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/opendirectory including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/pam including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/pap including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/passwd including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/perl including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/policy including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/preprocess including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/radutmp including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/realm including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/smbpasswd including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/sql_log including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/sqlcounter_expire_on_login including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/sradutmp including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/unix including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/modules/wimax including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/eap.conf including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/sql.conf including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/sql/sqlite/dialup.conf including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/sql/mysql/counter.conf including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/policy.conf including files in directory /private/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/ including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel including dictionary file /private/etc/raddb/dictionary main { prefix = "/usr" localstatedir = "/private/var" logdir = "/private/var/log/radius" libdir = "/usr/lib/freeradius" radacctdir = "/private/var/log/radius/radacct" hostname_lookups = no max_request_time = 30 cleanup_delay = 5 max_requests = 1024 allow_core_dumps = no pidfile = "/private/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid" checkrad = "/usr/sbin/checkrad" debug_level = 0 proxy_requests = yes log { stripped_names = no auth = no auth_badpass = no auth_goodpass = no } security { max_attributes = 200 reject_delay = 1 status_server = yes } } client localhost { ipaddr = 127.0.0.1 require_message_authenticator = no secret = "testing123" nastype = "other" } radiusd: #### Loading Realms and Home Servers #### proxy server { retry_delay = 5 retry_count = 3 default_fallback = no dead_time = 120 wake_all_if_all_dead = no } home_server localhost { ipaddr = 127.0.0.1 port = 1812 type = "auth" secret = "testing123" response_window = 20 max_outstanding = 65536 zombie_period = 40 status_check = "status-server" ping_interval = 30 check_interval = 30 num_answers_to_alive = 3 num_pings_to_alive = 3 revive_interval = 120 status_check_timeout = 4 } home_server_pool my_auth_failover { type = fail-over home_server = localhost } realm example.com { auth_pool = my_auth_failover } realm LOCAL { } radiusd: #### Instantiating modules #### instantiate { Module: Linked to module rlm_exec Module: Instantiating exec exec { wait = no input_pairs = "request" shell_escape = yes } Module: Linked to module rlm_expr Module: Instantiating expr Module: Linked to module rlm_expiration Module: Instantiating expiration expiration { reply-message = "Password Has Expired " } Module: Linked to module rlm_logintime Module: Instantiating logintime logintime { reply-message = "You are calling outside your allowed timespan " minimum-timeout = 60 } Module: Linked to module rlm_sql Module: Instantiating sql sql { driver = "rlm_sql_sqlite" server = "localhost" port = "" login = "radius" password = "radpass" radius_db = "radius" read_groups = yes sqltrace = no sqltracefile = "/private/var/log/radius/sqltrace.sql" readclients = yes deletestalesessions = yes num_sql_socks = 5 sql_user_name = "%{User-Name}" default_user_profile = "" nas_query = "SELECT id,nasname,shortname,type,secret FROM nas" authorize_check_query = "" authorize_group_check_query = "" authorize_group_reply_query = "" accounting_onoff_query = "" accounting_update_query = "" accounting_update_query_alt = "" accounting_start_query = "" accounting_start_query_alt = "" accounting_stop_query = "" accounting_stop_query_alt = "" connect_failure_retry_delay = 60 simul_count_query = "" simul_verify_query = "" postauth_query = "" safe-characters = "@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.-_: /" } rlm_sql (sql): Driver rlm_sql_sqlite (module rlm_sql_sqlite) loaded and linked rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect to radius@localhost:/radius rlm_sql (sql): starting 0 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_sqlite #0 rlm_sql_sqlite: Opening sqlite database /private/etc/raddb/sqlite_radius_client_database for #0 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_open() = 0 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #0 rlm_sql (sql): starting 1 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_sqlite #1 rlm_sql_sqlite: Opening sqlite database /private/etc/raddb/sqlite_radius_client_database for #1 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_open() = 0 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #1 rlm_sql (sql): starting 2 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_sqlite #2 rlm_sql_sqlite: Opening sqlite database /private/etc/raddb/sqlite_radius_client_database for #2 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_open() = 0 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #2 rlm_sql (sql): starting 3 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_sqlite #3 rlm_sql_sqlite: Opening sqlite database /private/etc/raddb/sqlite_radius_client_database for #3 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_open() = 0 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #3 rlm_sql (sql): starting 4 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_sqlite #4 rlm_sql_sqlite: Opening sqlite database /private/etc/raddb/sqlite_radius_client_database for #4 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_open() = 0 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #4 rlm_sql (sql): Processing generate_sql_clients rlm_sql (sql) in generate_sql_clients: query is SELECT id,nasname,shortname,type,secret FROM nas rlm_sql (sql): Reserving sql socket id: 4 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_prepare() = 1 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_sqlite #4 rlm_sql_sqlite: Opening sqlite database /private/etc/raddb/sqlite_radius_client_database for #4 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_open() = 0 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #4 rlm_sql_sqlite: sqlite3_prepare() = 1 rlm_sql (sql): failed after re-connect rlm_sql (sql): database query error, SELECT id,nasname,shortname,type,secret FROM nas: (null) rlm_sql (sql): Released sql socket id: 4 Failed to load clients from SQL. rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 4 rlm_sql_sqlite: sql_destroy_socket noop. rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 3 rlm_sql_sqlite: sql_destroy_socket noop. rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 2 rlm_sql_sqlite: sql_destroy_socket noop. rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 1 rlm_sql_sqlite: sql_destroy_socket noop. rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 0 rlm_sql_sqlite: sql_destroy_socket noop. /private/etc/raddb/sql.conf[22]: Instantiation failed for module "sql" Errors initializing modules Never having used the service before I am surprised. Is there something I should do first to prepare before running radius -X Thanks