Need to keep restarting FreeRadius service

[Kristian Maiorano]

Thanks for the advice, Alan. I'll disable the cron job when I can
afford some potential downtime and wait until the process hangs and
will get that information and attach it back.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 4:20 PM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 12, 2023, at 2:48 PM, Kristian Maiorano <kristian.maiorano at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have setup my Unifi network to connect to a Raspberry Pi 2 hosting
> > FreeRadius 3.2.0 with MAC authentication. That all seems to work now,
> > however I've run into an issue where it seems the FreeRadius service
> > needs to be restarted fairly frequently,
>
>   Why?
>
> > at least multiple times a
> > day. From what I can tell, the Pi is fine and there's plenty of
> > storage and resources. Restarting the service allows anything that was
> > having issues to connect, such as if it's been disconnected for a bit
> > (e.g., my phone when I go out and come back) but even devices that
> > don't leave the house and stay on sometimes lose connection until a
> > service restart. I know I could probably setup a cron job that
> > restarts the service every 30 minutes or so, but I wanted to check if
> > people had ideas on how to fix it.
>
>   The server shouldn't lock up randomly.  It would help to run "strace" or gdb on the locked process to see what it's doing.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
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