On May 28, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: > I recently had to install debian 6.0 on one of my servers after a hard drive > crash, and while I had freeradius running before, I can't seem to get it > running now. > > I ran sudo apt-get install freeradius and hit enter to accept the additional > packages, and I also installed dialup admin with the intention of getting to > it after getting freeradius running, but now I am running into trouble with > starting freeradius. The install completed without errors, but running sudo > ./freeradius -X produces the following: > > > Failed binding to authentication address * port 1812: Address already in use > /etc/freeradius/radiusd.conf[240]: Error binding to port for 0.0.0.0 port 1812 > > > I can post the full contents of the debug dump, but this appears to be the > only point at which an error is encountered. I am quite sure that there is > not an instance already running, so I don't know what else could be using the > port. Any ideas?
ps aux | grep free or ps ax | grep radius check for the process already running. kill -9 PID then start radius in debug mode. /usr/sbin/freeradius -X you probably have one started manually and one from init.d, and they are arguing over port access. -j
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