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    FreeRadius won't start (differs from MaxC post)

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    • J
      jeroen234
      last edited by

      i have 1.1.2 in the gui and when installed its 1.1.3_1
      so the 1.1.2 in the gui is a leftover from before the last update off the package

      i will put rlm_exec.a on a webserver that i own
      i have had this error 1 time but it was fixed by uninstalling the package and go to the last snapshot and then reboot and then install the package
      don't now if i rebooted again afther that
      but then it worked

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      • J
        jeroen234
        last edited by

        if i have made the port forward on pfsense correct then you can access my webserver and download the file from it
        http://wlelystad.homeip.net/pfsense/freeradius/

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        • J
          Justinw
          last edited by

          hmm, looks like its still not forwarding right just yet, thanks for your effort to help me out though.

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          • J
            jeroen234
            last edited by

            oeps the nated ip mist a 1 so pfsense was sending traffic to a ghost pc
            thanks for reporting

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            • J
              Justinw
              last edited by

              I got the file and set the permissions and replaced the old one, they differed by 600 bytes or so.  I still get the same error as before, and I started my install fresh, then updated to 12-23, then installed the package, still had the error, tried to replace the file with the one provided above, still has an error.  If anyone else can confirm similiar problems, that would be great.  Any other suggestions would also be appreciated.

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              • J
                jeroen234
                last edited by

                i see there a more files of rlm_exec
                i have :

                ls -l rlm_exec*

                lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    11 Nov 25 22:26 rlm_exec-1.1.3.la -> rlm_exec.la
                -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8676 Nov 25 22:26 rlm_exec-1.1.3.so
                -rw-r–r--  1 root  wheel  4326 Nov 25 22:26 rlm_exec.a
                -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  880 Nov 25 22:26 rlm_exec.la
                lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    17 Nov 25 22:26 rlm_exec.so -> rlm_exec-1.1.3.so

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                • J
                  Justinw
                  last edited by

                  Here is what I see:

                  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    11 Dec  3 18:45 rlm_exec-1.1.3.la -> rlm_exec.la
                  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8676 Dec  3 18:40 rlm_exec-1.1.3.so
                  -rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  4326 Dec 28 22:32 rlm_exec.a
                  -rw-r–r--  1 root  wheel  4914 Dec  3 18:45 rlm_exec.aold
                  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  816 Dec  3 18:45 rlm_exec.la
                  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    17 Dec  3 18:40 rlm_exec.so -> rlm_exec-1.1.3.so

                  I did a chmod 777 on it just to see if it had anything to do with permissions, and .aold is the previous rlm_exec.a other than rlm_exec.la it looks like all of them are the same size

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                  • J
                    jeroen234
                    last edited by

                    can you test if u copy this file to /usr/local/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf
                    http://wlelystad.homeip.net/pfsense/freeradius/radiusd.conf
                    edit this line to youre ip
                    bind_address = 212.187.92.144

                    if it then works for you ?

                    if that works then download
                    freeradius.inc
                    freeradius.xml
                    from my website to /usr/local/pkg/freeradius.inc
                                                                  freeradius.xml

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                    • J
                      Justinw
                      last edited by

                      As a matter of fact it does seem to get a clean startup, I don't see the service start in status > services, but when I try and start it again it says its running and the error is gone.  I made some changes in the gui and when the new conf file was created the same error came back, I wonder if there is a problem with how it is being written on the fly.  I'll look into it more, thanks again for your help.

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                      • J
                        jeroen234
                        last edited by

                        if you make a chanche in the gui then it writes the error back
                        the 2 gui files on my website have the error removed and don't write it to disk
                        also it add's some extra's

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                        • jahonixJ
                          jahonix
                          last edited by

                          On a vanilla system updated to 2006-12-23 I installed the freeradius package but the service won't start.
                          Deinstalled from webGUI and trying to manually add:

                          pkg_add -r freeradius

                          gives this error:

                          warning: package 'freeradius-1.1.3_1' requires 'gdbm-1.8.3_3', but 'gdbm-1.8.3_2' is installed

                          It won't start also but might be a hint…
                          Just deinstalled the package as I don't need it on this box.

                          jahonix

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                            jeroen234
                            last edited by

                            the pfsense freeradius package is talered to pfsense the one from freebsd needs more libs then pfsense has
                            in the pfsense freeradius gui there is a small gui error
                            if you replace freeradius.xml and freeradius.inc on location /usr/local/pkg
                            with the same files from http://wlelystad.homeip.net/pfsense/freeradius/

                            and then go to freeradius settings on the gui and save then the correct freeradius config is made and freeradius will start

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                            • jahonixJ
                              jahonix
                              last edited by

                              yep, just got it working this way.
                              Thanks alot - especially for the extended options accessible via webGUI!

                              Now I can lockout the kids at night when they are supposed to sleep (if it works, haven't tested it yet but I am confident…)

                              jahonix

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                                jeroen234
                                last edited by

                                for that option you need to config the captive portal with these options:
                                Hard timeout  leave blank
                                send RADIUS accounting packets
                                Reauthenticate connected users every minute
                                Accounting updates interim update

                                then pfsense will check every min if the user is still alowed

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                                  Justinw
                                  last edited by

                                  Well the updates look great, apparently I am still doing something wrong though here is the break down again:

                                  With your updates I am now getting this error :

                                  radiusd.conf[246] Failed to link to module 'rlm_expr': /usr/local/lib/rlm_expr.a: invalid file format

                                  When I use an invalid bind address it does say this:

                                  There appears to be another RADIUS server running on the authentication port 1812

                                  Without jeroen234 upates I got the error on line 226 as previously posted…

                                  It sounds like I may just still have a few bad lib files that aren't being built correclty, even with a fresh radius install, I'm not sure exactly why that is, but I would greatly appreciate if you could post the other lib files on your site for radius as well and I can see what I can do from there.  Thanks again for all your help.

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                                    jeroen234
                                    last edited by

                                    i think that you better can try a complete fresh install of pfsense
                                    http://pfsense.com/~sullrich/1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-12-23-2006/pfSense.iso.gz
                                    i can post the 50 or so freeradius files
                                    but if youre hd is not good then that makes no sense
                                    and my libs are the same as that you installed with the pfsense freeradius package

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                                    • J
                                      Justinw
                                      last edited by

                                      Working now

                                      I read sergu a post by sergu and what he did worked for me except I added a step

                                      Uninstall package via gui
                                      delete package with pkg_delete
                                      reinstall the package with pkg_add
                                      Install the package gui again

                                      Currently radiusd is running

                                      why?? I don't know

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                                      • J
                                        jeroen234
                                        last edited by

                                        it works that is good  ;D

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                                        • J
                                          Justinw
                                          last edited by

                                          It seems to be working great, I want to thank you again for all your help.  After I got it working I uploaded your package updates, they look great.  I do have one question though, what does the Ip-address field do, I know it uses attribute 8, framed-ip, but I'm not sure what its application is, could you give more info on that?  Is it supposed to change your ip address dynamically to the on assigned?

                                          I'm going to reload a second drive and see if I can trace the problem down so my 1 million posts can add up to something now.  Thanks again!

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                                          • J
                                            jeroen234
                                            last edited by

                                            the ip option is for the Issue IP Addresses via RADIUS server option of the pfsense pppoe server

                                            there was some work going on to get this also in the vpn ptpp server

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