rihad wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to run the net/openradius port as non-root > by first changing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openradius: > > . /etc/rc.subr > > name="openradius" > rcvar=`set_rcvar` > > load_rc_config ${name} > > : ${openradius_enable="NO"} > : ${openradius_flags="-o /var/log/openradius.log"} > > -command=/usr/local/sbin/radiusd > +command=/usr/local/bin/sudo > +flags="-u radius /usr/local/sbin/radiusd" > > run_rc_command "$1" > > (Lines marked with -/+ were removed/added by me, respectively). > > Then I add the radius user, allow it to run without sudo's asking for > the password, and finally start the thing up: > # pw useradd radius -d /nonexistent -s /usr/sbin/nologin > # visudo > # ... do the necessary chown/chmod on openradius logs/dictionaries ... > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openradius start > > All fine so far: everything starts up fine and runs. The problem starts > here: > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openradius stop > openradius not running? > # ps -auxww | fgrep radiusd > radius 89300 0.0 0.0 3756 1588 ?? Is 10:56AM 0:00.00 > /usr/local/sbin/radiusd > ... > > any built-in way to make "stop" work, without changing rc.d/ too much? > > Thanks.
probably the user does not have rights to write /var/run/radiusd.pid or whatever pid file it uses, I think the ``stop`` command cats that file and seeks for the PID in the processtree and kills it { sort off }. hope this helps! -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Remko Lodder | [EMAIL PROTECTED] X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"