RADIUS service taking long time to start

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Pratik,
It seems like it's got some problems with the configuration.  You can 
run it debug mode to see whats causing it to hang:
        radiusd -x

-Nitin

Pratik Singh wrote:

> 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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