> I am trying to build a version of 2.1.7 without threads (trying to debug > an abandoned child process issue). on a redhat AS5 Linux system
You don't build it without threads, you start it without threads. See man radiusd. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html