(RADIATOR) Strange radiusd startup problem

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Ray -

>Hi all, I have just restored a Linux system that had a hard drive failure
>and I am having a problem starting radiusd.  Previously I always started
>radiusd from /etc/rc5.d and never had a problem.  Now it starts fine but the
>first authentication request causes radiusd to die.  There is no information
>in the log file regardless on the setting of Trace.  If I start it from the
>console it works fine.  The command I use to start from /etc/rc5.d is su -c
>/usr/bin/radiusd.  I have also tried using restartWrapper in rc.local and it
>also starts fine but any auth request causes it to be restarted and it never
>works this way.
>
>The system is Mandrake 6.1 and Radiator 2.18.  If anyone has any ideas I'd
>appreciate hearing them.
>

This sounds like either permissions or environment due to the user 
that the rc scripts are running as.

regards

Hugh

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