Problems with installing to /etc and /var

[jck-freeradius at southwestern.edu]

Hello Michael,

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:36:26PM -0500, Michael Cooper wrote:
> Hello jck,
> 
>         I don't know what the proper permissions are, however

My problem is not permissions related.  I am trying to install FreeRADIUS
so that it references /etc/raddb, and writes to /var/log/radius. 

Instead, I receive the following upon startup:

	radiusd: Couldn't open /usr/local/var/log/radius/radius.log for logging:
	Permission denied

Granted, this is a permissions error.  Please note, I am not worried about
the permission error.  Instead, I am worried about radiusd trying
to reference:

	/usr/local/var/log/radius/radius.log

when it should be referring to:

	/var/log/radius/radius.log

I still require assistance with this matter! 

> 
> ----- 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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Thank you,
--johnk

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