Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-30 Thread John Dennis
It occurred to me there is one there is one issue you might need to be aware of, bootstrapping. The server with the default configuration will not successfully start without certificates. radiusd will automatically create temporary certificates the first time it is run for you if you don't alre

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-30 Thread John Dennis
On 09/30/2009 01:57 PM, Danner, Mearl wrote: Have you checked the appropriate logs? Any info in /var/log/radius/radius.log? Please post the contents. good suggestion How do you start it and as what user? Since this is Fedora and uses System V initscript it will start as root and then dro

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-30 Thread John Dennis
On 09/30/2009 01:19 PM, José Johnny RANDRIAMAMPIONONA wrote: I think that editing /etc/rc.local will start freeradius as a service. u v just to add sbin/rc.radiusd start . No, don't do this. Please use the standard System V init mechanisms only. /sbin/chkconfig /sbin/service -- John Dennis

RE: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-30 Thread Danner, Mearl
Have you checked the appropriate logs? Any info in /var/log/radius/radius.log? Please post the contents. How do you start it and as what user? - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-30 Thread John Dennis
On 09/30/2009 12:52 PM, paul.blal...@gmail.com wrote: So I went back to a clean install of Fedora 11, followed the instructions on installing freeradius via yum. Then I issued the command: chkconfig --list radiusd (and got the following) radiusd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off so i en

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-30 Thread José Johnny RANDRIAMAMPIONONA
I think that editing /etc/rc.local will start freeradius as a service. u v just to add sbin/rc.radiusd start . Best 2009/9/30 > So I went back to a clean install of Fedora 11, followed the instructions > on installing freeradius via yum. > Then I issued the command: > > chkconfig --list radius

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-30 Thread Paul . Blalock
So I went back to a clean install of Fedora 11, followed the instructions on installing freeradius via yum. Then I issued the command: chkconfig --list radiusd (and got the following) radiusd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off so i entered sudo chkconfig radiusd on and then I got chkcon

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-29 Thread John Dennis
On 09/29/2009 10:42 AM, paul.blal...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate your insight, and I might have to go with a pre-built package after all. But I did go ahead and issue the commands, and when I run chkconfig --list radiusd This is what I get. radiusd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Accordi

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-29 Thread Ivan Kalik
> According to the links that you sent me, this is what it is supposed to > say, but the radiusd service still does not start at boot time, it still > requires me to log on to the gnome desktop as root before the service will > start. Radiusd doesn't "require" you to do anything. That's how *you*

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-29 Thread Paul . Blalock
I appreciate your insight, and I might have to go with a pre-built package after all. But I did go ahead and issue the commands, and when I run chkconfig --list radiusd This is what I get. radiusd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off According to the links that you sent me, this is what it is

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-28 Thread John Dennis
The quoting in this thread is so confused I'm not going to try and unravel it. The Sytem -> Preferences -> Startup Applications menu item is only for desktop applications running in a session. That is quite a bit different than system services, sometimes called daemons. Typically the radius s

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, note sure why you are reversing the email conversation tags, however you installed from source so, in the source directory (where you ran ./configure) there is a redhat directory. in that directory is an rc. file - that needs to be copied into the /etc/init.d eg cp rc.whatever /etc/init.d/r

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-28 Thread Paul . Blalock
did you install FreeRADIUS via yum and a repository or from source? Downloaded freeradius-server-2.1.7.tar.gz, extracted to home directory, and then ./configure, make, make install. if from the repsository you should have a selectable service with eg the standard Fedora system startup tools -

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, > Guess I did forget to include that. I am using Fedora 11, installed from > CD, and when I > do a 'chkconfig radiusd on', it says no such file or directory. did you install FreeRADIUS via yum and a repository or from source? if from the repsository you should have a selectable service wit

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-28 Thread Paul . Blalock
Hi, I am trying to get freeradius to start at boot time so that I don't have to log in for it to start up. I saw a previous post that said to “Manually add the links in /etc/rc[0-6].d.” I am not sure what links this is referring to though, so I am at a standstill as to how to do this. dpend

Re: Start Freeradius at boot

2009-09-28 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi, > I am trying to get freeradius to start at boot time so that I don't have > to log in for it to start up. I saw a previous post that said to > “Manually add the links in /etc/rc[0-6].d.” > I am not sure what links this is referring to though, so I am at a > standstill as to how to do this