Bug 102068

Summary:	freeradius init script does not shutdown cleanly.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	John E. Vincent <gentoo-bugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Dialup Developers <net-dialup>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John E. Vincent 2005-08-10 19:23:03 UTC

You are unable to cleanly stop freeradius using the init script because PID
files are listed improperly in init script.

the init script lists /var/run/radiusd/radwatch.pid and
/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid as the location of the pid files but this directory
isn't created by the ebuild or by the init script when started.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start radiusd
2. look in /var/run for pid files or directory
3. attempt to stop radiusd
4. fails to stop because pid files are missing


Actual Results:  
radiusd failed to stop

Expected Results:  
radiusd should stop cleanly

According to the man page for radwatch, we should not be using this script. It
is not needed to drop privileges. A better solution is to call radiusd directly
from the init script and rely on other methods for server death notification.

Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-01 10:57:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99908 ***