Problems with installing to /etc and /var

[Michael Cooper]

Hello jck,

         I don't know what the proper permissions are, however

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jck-freeradius at southwestern.edu>
To: <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 4:37 PM
Subject: Problems with installing to /etc and /var


>I am running freeradius-1.0.4 from source, on SLES 9.0.  I want to install
> freeradius so that it uses /etc and /var, and not /usr/local/etc and 
> /usr/local/var.
>
> If I do:
>
> /usr/local/src/freeradius-1.0.4 # make clean && make distclean
>
> /usr/local/src/freeradius-1.0.4 # 
> ./configure --disable-shared --without-rlm_x99_token --prefix=/ --localstatedir=/var 
>  --sysconfdir=/etc --exec-prefix=/ --bindir=/usr/local --sbin=/usr/local --libexec=/usr/local 
>  --datadir=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local --includedir=/usr/local --oldincludedir=/usr/local 
>  --infodir=/usr/local --mandir=/usr/local && make
>
> Why do I receive this error message:
>
> /usr/local/src/freeradius-1.0.4 # src/main/radiusd
> Fri Jul  8 15:49:43 2005 : Info: Starting - reading configuration files 
> ...
> radiusd: Couldn't open /usr/local/var/log/radius/radius.log for logging: 
> Permission denied
>  (rlm_exec: Wait=yes but no output defined. Did you mean output=none?)
It looks like to me you have to chmod 644 /usr/local/var/log/radius/ <- this 
dir then also make sure it is creating the proper log file -> radius.log
Maybe one of these othere gurus know better what to tell you .... I ran into 
that problem as well a week ago I think.
>
>
> There should be no reference to:
>
> Couldn't open /usr/local/var/log/radius/radius.log
>
> Full logs of configure and make are viewable at:
> http://www.southwestern.edu/~johnk/freeradius_build_logs.txt
>
> Additionaly, why isn't there a Makefile method for deinstallation?
>
> Thanks,
> --johnk
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Good luck,
Michael A Cooper
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