How do I start Free Radius

English Network/Internet
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I typed in radiusd it it didn’t give me any errors. Makes me think it worked.

This is what came on the command prompt when I tried the command ps aux | grep “radiusd”

Code:

ps aux | grep “radiusd”

root 4142 0.0 0.2 3232 736 pts/1 S+ 06:43 0:00 grep radiusd

radiusd start

ps aux | grep “radiusd”

root 4158 0.0 0.2 3232 740 pts/1 S+ 06:45 0:00 grep radiusd

ps aux | grep “radiusd”

root 4167 0.0 0.2 3232 740 pts/1 S+ 06:45 0:00 grep radiusd

ps aux | grep “radiusd”

root 4169 0.0 0.2 3232 740 pts/1 S+ 06:45 0:00 grep radiusd

Because it said grep radiusd it means its running right?

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no, it’s NOT running. What you see is the grep command running.

3

So I guess my next question is why wont it run?

Can you guys please help me to figure out how I can make this start. I have my config files setup, and installed FreeRadius with YAST.

4

Did you try to start it with yast from the system services menu?

The official documentation FreeRADIUS – Documentation suggests that it should run “out of the box”.

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Where do I find the system service menu?

I read the link you gave me and tried starting Free Radius in debug mode.

This is what the command prompt gave me

linux-4spi:/home/brandon # radiusd -X
FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.1, for host i686-suse-linux-gnu, built on Feb 23 2009 at 21:34:25
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the
GNU General Public License v2.
Starting - reading configuration files …
including configuration file /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/proxy.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/clients.conf
including configuration file /etc/raddb/snmp.conf
Unable to open file “/etc/raddb/snmp.conf”: No such file or directory
Errors reading /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf

It said unable to open one of the files because it doesn’t exist and the other is an error reading a file. Would this cause FreeRadius not to start?

Also what could error reading mean? Could It mean it was not able to open the file or does it just mean it was configured wrong?

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It means that there was a problem with the config file. It looks like you asked it to include a file, snmp.conf, that doesn’t exist. If you have no use for SNMP features, then don’t include it.