Problems with using Freeradius as systemd

[Mark Antony]

Hello,

I have compiled Freeradius 3.0.21 successfully and can run it perfectly as radiusd -X.
However when I want to run it as Systemd it doesn't work.

This is how I have compiled it under Debian 10.9. Do I have to enable any special flag to support systemd?

wget ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/freeradius/freeradius-server-3.0.21.tar.gz
tar -xvzf freeradius-server-3.0.21.tar.gz
cd freeradius-server-3.0.21
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

/lib/systemd/system/freeradius.service:
[Unit]
Description=FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all
EnvironmentFile=-/usr/local/freeradius
ExecStartPre=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS -Cxm -lstdout
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Nothing obvious in syslog:
Apr 19 16:29:25 us-sfo-2 systemd[1]: freeradius.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Apr 19 16:29:25 us-sfo-2 systemd[1]: freeradius.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Apr 19 16:29:25 us-sfo-2 systemd[1]: Failed to start FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server.

Neither anything useful in journal -x
-- The job identifier is 6355.
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: FreeRADIUS Version 3.0.21
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Copyright (C) 1999-2019 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: PARTICULAR PURPOSE
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: GNU General Public License
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYRIGHT
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Starting - reading configuration files ...
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Debugger not attached
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Built without support for systemd watchdog, but running under systemd.
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Driver rlm_sql_mysql (module rlm_sql_mysql) loaded and linked
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Creating attribute SQL-Group
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Creating attribute Unix-Group
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_cache (cache_eap): Driver rlm_cache_rbtree (module rlm_cache_rbtree) loaded and linked
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Please use tls_min_version and tls_max_version instead of disable_tlsv1
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Please use tls_min_version and tls_max_version instead of disable_tlsv1_2
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: tls: Using cached TLS configuration from previous invocation
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: tls: Using cached TLS configuration from previous invocation
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql_mysql: libmysql version: 10.5.9
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect to database "radius_db"
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Initialising connection pool
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Processing generate_sql_clients
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql) in generate_sql_clients: query is SELECT id, nasname, shortname, type, secret, server FROM nas
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): 0 of 0 connections in use. You may need to increase "spare"
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Opening additional connection (0), 1 of 1 pending slots used
Apr 19 16:37:31 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Reserved connection (0)
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Released connection (0)
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_detail (auth_log): 'User-Password' suppressed, will not appear in detail output
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_mschap (mschap): using internal authentication
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Ignoring "ldap" (see raddb/mods-available/README.rst)
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: # Skipping contents of 'if' as it is always 'false' -- /usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel:336
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: radiusd: #### Skipping IP addresses and Ports ####
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: Configuration appears to be OK
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Removing connection pool
Apr 19 16:37:32 us-sfo-2 radiusd[6129]: rlm_sql (sql): Closing connection (0)
Apr 19 16:37:44 us-sfo-2 sudo[6138]: admin : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/admin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl -xe
Apr 19 16:37:44 us-sfo-2 sudo[6138]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by admin(uid=0)

I would really appreciate your help on this.
Thank you
Mark