radiusd not starting

[Dr.Peer-Joachim Koch]

Hi,

but even as root:root it's not working !
Shouldn't there be a access denied or smoething like this ?

Here is the startup:

############## more Rad2.log#####################
FreeRADIUS Version 2.0.3, for host i686-suse-linux-gnu, built on Mar 19 
2008 at 10:23:16
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.
Starting - reading configuration files ...
including configuration file /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/proxy.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/clients.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/snmp.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/eap.conf
including dictionary file /etc/raddb/dictionary
main {
         prefix = "/usr"
         localstatedir = "/var"
         logdir = "/var/log/radius"
         libdir = "/usr/lib/freeradius"
         radacctdir = "/var/log/radius/radacct"
         hostname_lookups = no
         max_request_time = 80
         cleanup_delay = 5
         max_requests = 1024
         allow_core_dumps = no
         pidfile = "/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid"
         user = "root"
         group = "root"
         checkrad = "/usr/sbin/checkrad"
         debug_level = 0
         proxy_requests = yes
  security {
         max_attributes = 200
         reject_delay = 1
         status_server = no
  }


A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk schrieb:
> 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
> -
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> 
> 


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