For some weird reason, freeradius is starting very slowly, the reason being that it connects to the postgreSQL server very slowly. I rebooted the computer and then I looked in the radius log. To my surprise, radius got an error "Database system starting up" or something like that, and then proceeded without SQL support.
My suggestion is to add a configuration setting that does not allow radius to start without the database working. Further still, if the database system is starting, radius should wait for it to start, shouldn't it? Costin - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
