Start Freeradius at boot

[John Dennis]

The quoting in this thread is so confused I'm not going to try and 
unravel it.

The Sytem -> Preferences -> Startup Applications menu item is only for 
desktop applications running in a session. That is quite a bit different 
than system services, sometimes called daemons. Typically the radius 
service is installed under the name radiusd following the convention 
that daemons have a "d" appended to them. That means you're trying to 
control a system service not a session based desktop application. This 
is done at the command prompt level with chkconfig or via a gui with 
system-config-services.

You might have looked at:

http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ#How_do_I_start_and_stop_the_FreeRADIUS_service.3F

If you build from source and you don't know what a System V Initscript 
is then the algorithm is:

1) Stop

2) Install the pre-built package with all this stuff already figured 
out, tested, and done for you so you don't have to learn how to build 
from source *and* integrate with the OS, all the while making a lot of 
learning curve mistakes.

Installing pre-built packages typically takes 1 minute of your time. 
Wasn't that easier?

Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS all have current packages available. See 
http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ


-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>

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