[RADIATOR] After RPM update radiator can't be stopped

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 05/24/2011 09:40 AM, W.Siebert at t-systems.com wrote:

Hello Waldemar,

> till yesterday we had Radiator 4.7-3 on our mashine.
> 
> After update to 4.8:

> rpm -Uvh Radiator-4.8-1.noarch.rpm
> radiator can't be stopped:

> /etc/init.d/radiator restart
> Shutting down Radiator: pidof: invalid options on command line!
> 
> In messages:
> VMRHEL01 radiator: -p shutdown failed
> VMRHEL01 radiator: radiusd startup succeeded
> 
> can you help please

Radiator's startup script /etc/init.d/radiator was changed in version
4.8 and it is likely the pid file location you have configured needs to
be checked. Here is the entry from the history file:

  Improvements to Radiator linux startup script so you can
  have multiple scripts in /etc/init.d/ with different names,
  and which lookup different parameters in /etc/sysconfig. For
  example, you can install the script as /etc/init.d/radiator
  and /etc/init.d/radiator-acct, and it will look up parameters
  in /etc/sysconfig/radiator and /etc/sysconfig/radiator-acct.
  Further improvement is to always use -p RADIUS_PIDFILE to
  killproc the process, rather than the process name.

If the pid file has not been set in for example,
/etc/sysconfig/radiator, the default location is
/var/log/radius/radiusd.pid. You can check this from /etc/init.d/radiator

The pid file is created by Radiator itself. The location can be
specified in the configuration file (PidFile) or command line (pid_file).

You should check that the location of pid file Radiator creates, matches
the pid file /etc/init.d/radiator uses.

Best regards,
Heikki

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