checking radiusd with cron

This may seem like an oversimplified approach, but can someone please comment. I've noticed that when radius dies, it usually kills all of its processes with it. Some have written a cron that checks first and then restarts etc. I wrote a cron that every minute just runs /usr/local/sbin/radiusd,

freeradius-0.8.1 with access point

I am a first time user of radius. I installed the radius using normal config and told it to use its old version of directories. I have an ap1000 (access point) set to look at the radius server to authenticate clients with the password of password for testing purposes. My config below is not