On Solaris you will waste your time trying to find out where the problem is. I had 2 Solaris servers with the exact same software load. One would compile and run FreeRadius the other pretty much said to forget it. They were both X-1's. So this is the way to get it to work and not have any trouble what so ever. Install Suse 7.3 for sparc on the two servers. Then compile and install freeradius. You will be home free and never have a bit of problems out of them..
Just my 2 cents. Gene Parks VIP Direct Atlanta -----Original Message----- From: Samuel T Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Solaris Issue Okay, I had emailed earlier about thread problems and Solaris. Here's a summary on what I've been doing (and a new problem I found). Someone mentioned trying to compile FreeRADIUS on a Linux box and try my configuration. I did just that with an old Dell and Red Hat 8.0. I compiled FreeRADIUS 0.8.1 with these arguments: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/etc/radius --with-ldap My configuration got its authentication from LDAP and its authorization from the users file, and it worked beautifully. These are EXACTLY the same configuration files I used with my very troubled Solaris install. (I just copied them over to the Linux machine with scp.) FreeRADIUS works just like it should with Linux. However: The Solaris 8 (on a Netra T1) install: I compiled FreeRADIUS 0.8.1 with these arguments: ./confgure --prefix=/usr/local/etc/radius --with-ldap (Just as a note, I used gcc for both Linux and Solaris. I even tried to compile with Sun's compiler under Solaris, but after getting some errors with the rlm_ldap module, I used gcc.) This server would only work with LDAP if I ran it with the "-s" flag. Otherwise the server would fail to connect with LDAP (sending out a syn packet, immediently followed by a reset packet... before our LDAP server ever answered). The radiusd.log contains: Mon Dec 16 18:55:52 2002 : Error: rlm_ldap: cn=xxxxxx,ou=xxxxxx,dc=xxx,dc=xxx bind to ldap.nau.edu:389 failed: Can't contact LDAP server Mon Dec 16 18:55:52 2002 : Error: rlm_ldap: (re)connection attempt failed Debugging output does not give much more than this. Everything works fine if I give radiusd the "-s" flag. So I tried to compile with these arguments instead (and found a new problem): ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/etc/radius --with-ldap --with-threads=no The server worked without needing the "-s" flag, but the server would not respond to accounting requests. When I tried to run in debug mode, accounting requests caused a segmentation fault. I do NOT have this problem when I compile "with threads", and I do not need the "-s" flag to do accounting. I only need the "-s" flag for LDAP... I tried authentication with a local account and this worked fine. If anyone wants more information or you want me to try something please feel free to email me. I am going to "solve" my problem by using a Linux machine for FreeRADIUS. However, there may be some people who want to use LDAP and Solaris someday so I decided to send this email about my Solaris woes even though I am not planning to bother with it. Thanks for the help, -- Samuel T Patterson Systems Programmer Northern Arizona University Information and Technology Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Flagstaff, AZ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
