Fail to restart radiusd

[Yang Xue]

Hi, Alan

 netstat -an | grep 1812

returns nothing, which means the port is not used by any process.

 netstat -an | grep 1812
[root at server1 etc]#


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> Yang Xue wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We're running freeradius server v2.0.3 and restart of the daemon failed with:
>>
>> #/etc/init.d/radiusd restart
>> Stopping RADIUS server: [FAILED]
>> Starting RADIUS server: Fri Jul 16 07:50:16 2010 : Info: Starting -
>> reading configuration files ... [FAILED]
>
>  If it didn't stop the server, it won't be able to start a new one.
>
>> In the radius.log, it shows:
>>
>> Error: There appears to be another RADIUS server running on the
>> authentication port 1812 <---
>>
>> The odd thing is that there is no radiusd process running on the Linux
>> server at all:
>>
>> # ps aux  | grep rad
>> root      4869  0.0  0.0  4544  636 pts/1    S+   12:11   0:00 grep rad
>
>  <shrug>  It might have a different name.  See also:
>
> $ netstat -an | grep 1812
>
>> Does anybody know why it complains about "another RADIUS server
>> running on the authentication port 1812" although there is no existing
>> radiusd process at all?
>
>  The server tries to use port 1812, and the OS says it can't, because
> there's another process using it.
>
>  Find that process, and stop it.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
>
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