Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 chkconfig --list radiusd radiusd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off I then restart the computer to verify that it works correctly, and it does not. I still have to log into an account before the service starts. Is there anything else I can try to get this working correctly? - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 paul.blal...@gmail.com 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 chkconfig --list radiusd radiusd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off I then restart the computer to verify that it works correctly, and it does not. I still have to log into an account before the service starts. Is there anything else I can try to get this working correctly? - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html -- JJohnny RANDRIAMAMPIONONA Phone: +212663682554, +212533158575 National School of Applied Sciences ZIP 1818 TANGIER 9 -Morocco --- - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 entered sudo chkconfig radiusd on and then I got chkconfig --list radiusd radiusd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off I then restart the computer to verify that it works correctly, and it does not. I still have to log into an account before the service starts. Is there anything else I can try to get this working correctly? As previously asked before, what does service radiusd status report after booting. If it says the service is not running then what does sudo service radius start report? Did it fail? If you have most likely have a configuration problem which is preventing the server from starting. If so then what is the output of /usr/sbin/radiusd -X If logging into a desktop session has any impact whatsoever then something is horribly wrong, this is not normal at all. Are you sure you didn't mess with Startup Applications? -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
RE: Start Freeradius at boot
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
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 jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 drop privileges to the radiusd user. However, if he initially ran the server *manually* as non-root it might have created files with the wrong ownership and permissions which would block the server from initializing when run properly. The most likely files improperly created would be the automatic certificate creation. -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 already have certificates installed. However this only is done if the server is started in debug mode. Therefore you have to run /usr/sbin/radiusd -X *as root* after the first time you perform an install to cause the bootstrapping to occur. The RPM should probably do this for you, but it currently doesn't. Once your certs are established this never has to be repeated. -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 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. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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* configured it to start - as a desktop application. If you don't know how to write management scripts for deamons (and where are they supposed to go) use prebuilt packages which will do this for you. If you want to learn how - find a list/forum that is appropriate for that. Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 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. Logging on the the gnome desktop as root is insanely insecure, never do it. As a matter of fact in current Fedora releases you're prohibited from starting a desktop session as root. Instead you should open a terminal window and then su, or better add yourself to the sudoers list and sudo your commands. We'll assume you're in the sudoers list. What happens when you issue: service radiusd status Is it running, according to you not, just checking though. If it's not starting a boot time with it enabled via chkconfig then it's probably not starting successfully. What happens when you: sudo service radiusd start Does it start? If so I can't explain what's going on because that's virtually identical to what should happen at boot time. Do you have SELinux enabled and in *enforcing* mode? BTW, I have no idea if the initscript shipped in the FreeRADIUS distribution will work as we provide our own (another reason to use our RPM's). I also know we're going to be reworking the initscript to comply with LSB requirements. -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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. dpends on what OS you have - and, under Linux, which distro you have. if you have installed from a package, then that package should have supplied the required start/stop scripts for the system and then you can use the OS's chosen service solution to configure whether/when the service is started. if you have built from source, then there are a few scripts supplied in the source tarball that can be used - eg there is a script for RedHat - just copy that script into /etc/init.d and do a 'chkconfig radiusd on' alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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. dpends on what OS you have - and, under Linux, which distro you have. if you have installed from a package, then that package should have supplied the required start/stop scripts for the system and then you can use the OS's chosen service solution to configure whether/when the service is started. if you have built from source, then there are a few scripts supplied in the source tarball that can be used - eg there is a script for RedHat - just copy that script into /etc/init.d and do a 'chkconfig radiusd on' alan 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. Paul - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 with eg the standard Fedora system startup tools - maybe they've decided to call it 'freeradius' or 'freeradius2' rather than radiusd? if from source, then the install part (make install) wont handle your OS directory - you'll need to copy the script (and maybe edit it according to install path choices made) from the contrib directory eg redhat/rc.radiusd-redhat to the correct place - /etc/init.d/ i'd note now that its not just the startup item - theres also a logrotate script which ties into the system logrotate cron stuff to ensure that freeradius logs (eg /var/log/radius/ get rotated when needed - eg each day for 90 days retention) alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 - maybe they've decided to call it 'freeradius' or 'freeradius2' rather than radiusd? There is a Startup Applications where I can add programs, but it doesn't start them until you log on to the machine and this doesn't work unless you log into the gui as root. if from source, then the install part (make install) wont handle your OS directory - you'll need to copy the script (and maybe edit it according to install path choices made) from the contrib directory eg redhat/rc.radiusd-redhat to the correct place - /etc/init.d/ i'd note now that its not just the startup item - theres also a logrotate script which ties into the system logrotate cron stuff to ensure that freeradius logs (eg /var/log/radius/ get rotated when needed - eg each day for 90 days retention) alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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/radiusd then use the appropriate tool to ensure this starts by default (I use chkconfig - from the old school) but Fedora does have system admin tools to ensure that daemons start up when the system starts up - i know..i've had to use their tool just once or twice. since I cant use such tools att he end of a 14.4 baud dual up to a comms centre across the pond, i use SSH with eg chkconfig extensively) you'll want to then check everything is A OKAY by eg service radiusd start service radiusd status service rediusd restart the first thing will test it can be started with the script. as i said before the script was written some time back and some directories might not exist and some permissions might be wrong! if the script fails or 'status' test fails then check the /var/log/radius/radiusd.log to see maybe reasons why. once its all running fine, then the service will restart fine upon reboot. even if the system is a VMWare instance on a Max OSX server - doesnt matter what its on, the basics will always be the same with that distro. alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Start Freeradius at boot
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 service is installed under the name radiusd following the convention that daemons have a d appended to them. That means you're trying to control a system service not a session based desktop application. This is done at the command prompt level with chkconfig or via a gui with system-config-services. You might have looked at: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ#How_do_I_start_and_stop_the_FreeRADIUS_service.3F If you build from source and you don't know what a System V Initscript is then the algorithm is: 1) Stop 2) Install the pre-built package with all this stuff already figured out, tested, and done for you so you don't have to learn how to build from source *and* integrate with the OS, all the while making a lot of learning curve mistakes. Installing pre-built packages typically takes 1 minute of your time. Wasn't that easier? Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS all have current packages available. See http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: start freeradius on boot
which linux-distribution do you use? Marc Am Montag, 29. März 2004 13:51 schrieb Sander Groenhaut: Hello, I would like FreeRadius to boot automatically when the system starts, but I don't get it. Does anybody know how to make it? Sander Encuentra lo que buscas en la Guía de Empresas y Profesionales LYCOS-QDQ http://qdq.lycos.es/buscador.cfm?pCliente=lycos -- Marc Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#190044536 http://tuxxy.in.itzehoe.de - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
