Help please, /var/run/freeradius/freeradius.pid: No such file or directory?

[Owen DeLong]

This usually mens that the directory that the file goes into does not  
exist.

try: mkdir -p /var/run/freeradius

Owen

On Nov 4, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Cameron Cowie wrote:

> Hi:
> I am trying to setup freeradius on the latest stable version of  
> Ubuntu.
>
> Version ...
>
> root at XXXXXXX:/sbin# freeradius -v
> freeradius: FreeRADIUS Version 1.0.2, for host , built on Aug  6  
> 2006 at 20:11:24
> Copyright (C) 2000-2003 The FreeRADIUS server project.
>
> When I run freeradius -x I get an output error of ....
>
> Starting - reading configuration files ...
> Using deprecated naslist file.  Support for this will go away soon.
> Module: Loaded exec
> rlm_exec: Wait=yes but no output defined. Did you mean output=none?
> Module: Instantiated exec (exec)
> Module: Loaded expr
> Module: Instantiated expr (expr)
> Module: Loaded PAP
> Module: Instantiated pap (pap)
> Module: Loaded CHAP
> Module: Instantiated chap (chap)
> Module: Loaded MS-CHAP
> Module: Instantiated mschap (mschap)
> Module: Loaded System
> Module: Instantiated unix (unix)
> Module: Loaded eap
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type md5
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type leap
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type gtc
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type mschapv2
> Module: Instantiated eap (eap)
> Module: Loaded preprocess
> Module: Instantiated preprocess (preprocess)
> Module: Loaded realm
> Module: Instantiated realm (suffix)
> Module: Loaded files
> Module: Instantiated files (files)
> Module: Loaded Acct-Unique-Session-Id
> Module: Instantiated acct_unique (acct_unique)
> Module: Loaded detail
> Module: Instantiated detail (detail)
> Module: Loaded radutmp
> Module: Instantiated radutmp (radutmp)
> Failed creating PID file /var/run/freeradius/freeradius.pid: No  
> such file or directory
>
> how to I create that pid file?
>
> We are trying to keep this simple as possible, with just a plain  
> text access list.
>
> Any help or comments will be greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
> Cameron
>
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