That configuration will run FreeRADIUS as a daemon. It just means that init will restart it if/when it dies. I think you are confusing init with (x)inetd.
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 18:44, Tin Ly wrote: > Is it better to have freeradius run using this line as suggested in the > service-radiusd.txt file: fr:23:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -s > &> /dev/null? I was thinking of running it as a daemon instead of in > the foreground and having multiple threads. Which is more optimal? > Thanks in advance for the help. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html