[Pkg-freeradius-maintainers] Bug#992321: freeradius isn't creating a PID file

[Dan MacLeod]

Package: freeradius
Version: 3.0.21+dfsg-2.2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: danmac at insertcomment.com

Dear Maintainer,

We use monit to check the PID file at /var/log/freeradius/freeradius.pid and restart the service if it goes down, and this works in stretch and buster but no PID file seems to be created in bullseye. 

I tried checking the permissions of the folder and looking through log files and can't find a reason it wouldn't be created. 

After this I removed our configuration and did a base install and neither seems to generate this file. 

While there are workarounds I want to confirm if freeradius is still meant to generate this file and isn't, or if there are any further troubleshooting steps I can try. 

Thanks 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages freeradius depends on:
ii  freeradius-common  3.0.21+dfsg-2.2
ii  freeradius-config  3.0.21+dfsg-2.2
ii  libc6              2.31-13
ii  libcrypt1          1:4.4.18-4
ii  libct4             1.2.3-1
ii  libfreeradius3     3.0.21+dfsg-2.2
ii  libgdbm6           1.19-2
ii  libpam0g           1.4.0-9
ii  libperl5.32        5.32.1-4+deb11u1
ii  libreadline8       8.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0       3.34.1-3
ii  libssl1.1          1.1.1k-1
ii  libsystemd0        247.3-6
ii  libtalloc2         2.3.1-2+b1
ii  libwbclient0       2:4.13.5+dfsg-2
ii  lsb-base           11.1.0

Versions of packages freeradius recommends:
ii  freeradius-utils  3.0.21+dfsg-2.2

Versions of packages freeradius suggests:
pn  freeradius-krb5        <none>
pn  freeradius-ldap        <none>
pn  freeradius-mysql       <none>
pn  freeradius-postgresql  <none>
pn  freeradius-python3     <none>
pn  snmp                   <none>

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