Andrew Lester <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi all,
Hi,
> This is probably a very simple question, but for the life of me I have not
> been able to
> locate a solution. I am running a RADIUS server on OpenBSD 5.5 stable (+
> openssl patches)
> using FreeRADIUS 2.2.0p2 from the ports tree. When I first installed
> FreeRADIUS, it worked
> great. However, when I rebooted the system, radiusd would no longer start. I
> discovered
> the run_dir of /var/lrun/radiusd, which houses the PID file and socket, was
> missing. I
> re-created the directory and changed its ownership to _freeradius. After
> that, it
> started working again. But whenever the system reboots, the entire
> /var/run/radiusd
> directory gets deleted somehow.
That's a fact, /var/run is cleaned up at boot time.
> The only references I could find regarding this happening with OpenBSD was on
> a blog,
> where the recommendation was simply to manually re-create the directory.
> There must be
> something I am missing here, and I feel like it’s probably quite simple. Does
> anybody know
> what I need to do in order to prevent the run dir from being deleted, or know
> if there is
> a better location for it where it won’t be automatically deleted when the
> system reboots?
The fr package comes with an rc script that takes care of this for you:
rc_pre() {
/usr/bin/install -d -o _freeradius /var/run/radiusd
}
If you don't use it (eg. because you run radiusd -X in tmux), just add
that line to /etc/rc.local.
> Thanks in advance for any help, it is much appreciated and OpenBSD rocks!
:)
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