Bug 93152 – Upgrade to net-dialup/freeradius-1.0.2-r4 deleted /var/run/radiusd directory

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mike Nerone 2005-05-19 01:36:36 UTC]

Upgrading to net-dialup/freeradius-1.0.2-r4 deleted the /var/run/radiusd directory, preventing radiusd from starting. Do you think that either a keepdir or just putting radiusd.pid directly in /var/run would seem to be appropriate?

[Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 01:53:39 UTC]

I will solve it by reinstalling existing pid files. /var/run/radiusd should not
be protected by .keep since it will not contain any info that could be
considered as valuable.

btw, -r4 does not exist anymore, being replaced by -r5 (has a new & safer init
script). 

[Comment 2 Mike Nerone 2005-05-19 02:27:44 UTC]

Wasn't -r4 just released today?

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-05-19 02:31:23 UTC]

Yes, but security team requested me to make this change as a precaution against
a potential DoS.
Anyway, -r4 life was a very short one (1/2 hour), so I guess you are the only
one who did this upgrade.

[Comment 4 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-05-22 07:02:43 UTC]

I've fixed in the same -r5 version. Now, before a version gets removed, radiusd
daemon will be stopped. In case it was an upgrade, the ebuild will display a
warning about it.

Also made a small correction in the init script.

[Comment 5 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-05-26 21:29:33 UTC]

*** Bug 94109 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***