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

[Dan MacLeod]

Thank you Bernhard, that's fixed the issue.

Is there any reason that the Bullseye version runs as a foreground process
vs Buster which doesn't? Or is that a question for freeradius themselves?

Thanks

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 23:13, Bernhard Schmidt <berni at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I haven't tested it, but I think it's expected
>
> On systemd systems Freeradius is started with
>
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/freeradius -f $FREERADIUS_OPTIONS
>
> So it runs in foreground (-f). There is an option that says
>
>   -f            Run as a foreground process, not a daemon.
>   -P            Always write out PID, even with -f.
>
> so I would try to add "-P" to FREERADIUS_OPTIONS /etc/default/freeradius.
>
> Bernhard
>
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