Systemctl start issue on Freeradius 3.0.19

[J Kephart]

We had the same problem on CentOS 7; it has problems starting radiusd 
with systemd.  The solution was to disable the systemd start-up script, 
and create a legacy init.d start-up script.  Just include in that file 
'SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT="true"', so it doesn't try to use the systemd 
functions.  That solved it for us.

Cheers,

Jim

On 5/2/19 2:06 PM, Giuseppe Russo wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed Freeradius 3.0.19 on centos 7.
> Everything is working properly but if I start the service with systemctl start radius the service remain in “activating” status:
>
> radiusd.service - FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server
>     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
>     Active: activating (start) since Thu 2019-05-02 19:52:38 CEST; 31s ago
>       Docs: man:radiusd(8)
>             man:radiusd.conf(5)
>             http://wiki.freeradius.org/
>             http://networkradius.com/doc/
>    Process: 6786 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R root /usr/local/var/run/radiusd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>    Process: 6784 ExecStartPre=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS -Cx -lstdout (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>   Main PID: 6792 (radiusd)
>     Memory: 8.5M (limit: 2.0G)
>     CGroup: /system.slice/radiusd.service
>             └─6792 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd
>
>
> This is the content of the radiusd.service file:
>
> [Unit]
> Description=FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server
> After=network-online.target
> Documentation=man:radiusd(8) man:radiusd.conf(5) http://wiki.freeradius.org/ http://networkradius.com/doc/
>
> [Service]
> Type=notify
> WatchdogSec=60
> NotifyAccess=all
> PIDFile=/usr/local/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid
> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/radiusd
>
> # FreeRADIUS can do static evaluation of policy language rules based
> # on environmental variables which is very useful for doing per-host
> # customization.
> # Unfortunately systemd does not allow variable substitutions such
> # as %H or $(hostname) in the EnvironmentFile.
> # We provide HOSTNAME here for convenience.
> Environment=HOSTNAME=%H
>
> # Limit memory to 2G this is fine for %99.99 of deployments.  FreeRADIUS
> # is not memory hungry, if it's using more than this, then there's probably
> # a leak somewhere.
> MemoryLimit=2G
>
> RuntimeDirectory=radiusd
> RuntimeDirectoryMode=0775
> ExecStartPre=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS -Cx -lstdout
> ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown -R root /usr/local/var/run/radiusd
> ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS
> Restart=on-failure
> RestartSec=5
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
> Can you tell me how to solve this problem?
>
> Thank you
>
> Giuseppe
>
>
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