Sometimes the nightly restart of the radiusd fails (freeradius-0.5). Radwatch detects this and correctly mails "Radius died, restarting.." every 10 seconds.
In this state I only see one radwatch and one radiusd process with "ps -ax", but it should look like this: # ps ax|grep rad 26096 pts/0 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/radwatch -y 26097 pts/0 S 0:01 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -y 26099 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -y 26100 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -y 26101 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -y 26102 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -y 26103 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -y 26104 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -f -y Until the moment the server is restarted, the radiusd works and authenticates users. But in the situations, when restarting fails, radius-logging stops and I see this at the end of radius.log: ... Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Info: MASTER: exit. Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Info: CHILD: exit. Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Info: CHILD: exit. Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) Sun Jun 9 04:05:43 2002 : Error: CHILD: exit on signal (11) - If this is a known bug, does anyone have a workaround to force restarting radiusd in this undefined state? Gruss Oliver - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
