unable to write 'random state' when starting freeradius

[Madwifi Wireless]

Hi John,

Thanks for the response, here is my settings. I am basically running 
this as root since am just testing right now. In my radiusd.conf the 
user/group is commented out.

#
#user = radius
#group = radius

And the permission on the certs directory is 770

[root at ns2 sbin]# ls -ld ../etc/raddb/certs
*drwxrwx---  2 root root 4096 Oct  3 18:00 ../etc/raddb/certs*
[root at ns2 sbin]#

I've also tried the same thing on ubuntu and I have the same error message.

AM


John Dennis wrote:
> Madwifi Wireless wrote:
>> Has anyone come across this error? This happens when I start 
>> freeradius for the first time.
>> Platform: RedHat ES 4.0
>> Version: FreeRadius 2.1.1
>
> random_file = "/usr/local/freeradius-2.1.1/etc/raddb/certs/random"
>
> What are the ownership and permissions and ownership on the directory 
> /usr/local/freeradius-2.1.1/etc/raddb/certs?
>
> Do they match the user and group specified in 
> /usr/local/freeradius-2.1.1/etc/radiusd.conf?
>
> Assuming the user/group is either radius or radiusd the does the 
> directory permissions allow an owner or group to write into that 
> directory?
>
> For example it should be something this (this example assumes 
> installation with prefix=/usr):
>
> sudo ls -ld /etc/raddb/certs
> drwxrwx--- 2 root radiusd 4096 2008-09-25 15:29 /etc/raddb/certs
>
>
>