radiusd not starting

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> we updated yesterday one of our server running Novell SLES 9.
> After the update the "raidusd" (not the sles version, self compiled)
> did not work correctly (the load was getting higher and higher).
>
> Therefore I installed the current version of the
> freeradius-server (2.0.3) from
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/aaa/
>
> After fixing a few things in the /etd/raddb/users
> the server is running fine, when I do a
>    radiusd -X
> also
>     radius -f
> seem's to work.
>
> But neither a
> radiusd
> not
> /etc/init.d/freeradius start
> is launching the radiusd-Daemon. But I can not see
> WHY the raidusd is not starting as daemon.
>
> Any idea ?

permissions - and if you ran "radiusd -x" you might even see that - 
its probably unabled to read some /etc/raddb files, or write to /var/log/radius
etc etc -

alan