Bash Script not exec-uting in Daemon Mode

[Mike Ruebner]

Well, I didn't expect someone to take this personally. Neither was that my intent.

And, yes, something changed. After some digging, I found this nugget in '/lib/systemd/system/freeradius.service':

# We shouldn't be writing to the configuration directory
ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc/freeradius/

Defeats any attempt to write to a sub-directory & explains why my script stopped performing in daemon mode. No idea when this was introduced, or whether the package maintainer came up with this brilliant idea. Wouldn't hurt to document this somewhere, though. Anyway, my system, my rules. Directive commented out, and my script is working as expected again. 

Bests, Mike



> And... anything in the logs?  Have you tried running it as the "freeradi" user from the command line?
> Have you instrumented the script to see if it's running?  Can you have the script write logs to /tmp, or to syslog?

> Something changed.  The server still executes scripts fine for everyone else.  So it's something on your local system. 

> i.e. you have a number of options for debugging it locally.  We have none.   Which means that there's very little we can do to help.

> Alan DeKok.


>> On Mar 30, 2022, at 12:38 AM, Mike Ruebner <freeradius at machichemicals.com> wrote:
>> Strange doings executing a bash script from the 'exec' module in v.3.0.21 on Debian 11.3.
>> Everything works fine in debug mode ('-X'), but script execution fails in daemon mode. This used to work before a recent upgrade
>> from v.3.0.17. Any pointers greatly appreciated! Mike

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