i grabbed the initscript from the debian folder, figured it wouldn't be too far off since i am using a debian 3.0r1 system. i didn't make a deb file with it though, kept failing due to some of the database support wasn't available, and i was having problems finding where to disable the support since i wasn't going to be using it anyways.
but anyways, '/etc/init.d/radiusd stop' doesn't stop the radius. anyone working on debian or know what should be fixed to get it to stop correctly? freeRadius 0.8.1 file in question: freeradius-0.8.1/debian/initscript - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html