THAT WAS IT! You were right! Thanks! I turned off selinux and the problem went away.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:10 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: FW: Install - Freeradius can't connect to MySQL Hi, > Here's even more light: > > When I start freeradius by just typing radiusd on the command line, it > connects to MySQL ok. But if I start it like I'm supposed to: service > radiusd start, it doesn't. I'm using Fedora 5 with the latest > freeradius.i386, freeradius-unixODBC.i386, and freeradius-mysql.i386. sounds like SELINUX might be paying your processes a visit. I'd check the system logs to see if selinux is getting in the way. alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html