RADIUS service taking long time to start

[Pratik Singh]

Hi All,

 

I have the following problem with my RADIUS server, which is Cistron-1.6.3,
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0:

1] When I try to start the process from the command line - [root at RADIUS
admin]# /usr/local/sbin/radiusd, the process takes a very long time to start
and almost hangs.

2] On checking the process - [root at RADIUS raddb]$ ps -ax | grep radius

 1793 pts/0    S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1810 pts/1    S      0:00 grep radius

3] After some time I get the following - [root at RADIUS raddb]$ ps -ax | grep
radius

 1811 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1812 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1834 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1835 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1842 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1845 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1851 pts/1    S      0:00 grep radius

[root at RADIUS raddb]$ kill -9 1834 1835 1842 1845

-bash: kill: (1834) - No such process

-bash: kill: (1835) - No such process

-bash: kill: (1842) - No such process

-bash: kill: (1845) - No such process

4] Finally the process runs (after checking through radtest) [root at RADIUS
raddb]# ps -ax | grep radius

 1811 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1812 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/sbin/radiusd

 1866 pts/0    S      0:00 grep radius

 

I again killed the process and restarted using /usr/local/sbin/radiusd, but
this time I faced no problems, and the service started instantaneously with
no problems. Currently facing no problems.

 

Any pointers as to why this anomaly occurred?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Rgds

Pratik Singh

NOC, HCL Infinet

 

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