Freeradius (radiusd) service can't start on boot but can start manually
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I managed to setup freeradius server on Centos 7 using compiled source at ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/freeradius/freeradius-server-3.0.18.tar.gz
Everything works perfectly fine except, the service can't run every time after reboot.
I have to issue command...
sudo systemctl start radiusd
The service run successfully. Below are the logs
● radiusd.service - FreeRADIUS config by ME.
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-01-22 00:10:50 +08; 7s ago
Process: 2036 ExecStart=/opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd -d /opt/freeradius/etc/raddb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2028 ExecStartPre=/opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2023 ExecStartPre=/opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd -C (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2020 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R radiusd.radiusd /var/run/radiusd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2039 (radiusd)
CGroup: /system.slice/radiusd.service
└─2039 /opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd -d /opt/freeradius/etc/raddb
Here is my systemd content for radiusd.service
[Unit]
Description=FreeRADIUS config by ME.
After=syslog.target network.target ipa.service dirsrv.target krb5kdc.service smb.service nmb.service
[Service]
Type=forking
#PIDFile=/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid
ExecStartPre=-/bin/chown -R radiusd.radiusd /var/run/radiusd
ExecStartPre=/opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd -C
ExecStart=/opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd -d /opt/freeradius/etc/raddb
ExecReload=/opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This is system log after the reboot
● radiusd.service - FreeRADIUS config by ME.
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2022-01-22 00:32:31 +08; 48s ago
Process: 1320 ExecStartPre=/opt/freeradius/sbin/radiusd -C (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 1284 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R radiusd.radiusd /var/run/radiusd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Jan 22 00:32:22 myhost systemd: Starting FreeRADIUS config by ME....
Jan 22 00:32:31 myhost systemd: radiusd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 22 00:32:31 myhost systemd: Failed to start FreeRADIUS config by ME..
Jan 22 00:32:31 myhost systemd: Unit radiusd.service entered failed state.
Jan 22 00:32:31 myhost systemd: radiusd.service failed.
I just don't know where else to look because this is the only log that i found.
Asked by luca ditrimma
(111 rep)
Jan 22, 2022, 12:45 AM
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