Unable to create control socket

[email.me at kevp.com]

Hi all,

 

Can anyone please help me get the control socket for radmin working on
Ubuntu.

 

I've built FreeRADIUS v3.0.21 debs from source and install the debs on
Ubuntu 18.04.

I then created some ssl certs and the default config starts up ok.

 

I then add a symlink to turn on the control-socket and sudo freeradius -X
gives the error:

 

Failed creating control socket "/var/run/freeradius/freeradius.sock": Failed
creating control socket directory: Permission denied

 

I know the service startup has comments about the directory creation not
working on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04).

So I've tried creating /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/freeradius.conf containing: 'd
/var/run/freeradius 0755 freerad freerad -'

Ran sudo systemd-tmpfiles --create but no /var/run/freeradius

Rebooted and no /var/run/freeradius

sudo freeradius -X gives same error (as above).

 

Anyone know how to get the control-socket to start correctly on Bionic?

 

I've also tried on Ubuntu 16.04 and get the same issue, but I rather fix on
18.04 if poss.

 

Many thanks all,

 

Kev/.