Re: radiusd exiting with status 0xb...

Matt Zimmerman (mdz@netrail.net)
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:15:22 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Joe Portman wrote:

> > Our radiusd (Merit 2.4.16, running via inetd) seems to be aborting
> > frequently with an exit status (as reported by inetd) of 0xb...according
> > to the manpage, this is nonsensical...is inetd munging the exit code; if
> > so, what error is actually being reported? Nothing is logged to
> > .../raddb/logfile or syslog.
>
> 0xb = 11 = SIGSEGV = segment fault?
>
> Just guessing.
>
> We've seen that when a user enters their login name as 'johndoe@aa.net'
> and we had our default realm pointing to the same radius server. It would
> loop for a while and then crater.
>
> Our fix was to remove the DEFAULT realm (I believe).

Hmm...only using the DEFAULT realm at this point, for Unix-PW
authentication. It's a clean 2.4.16 distribution, so I should hope it's
not segfaulting...I'll try running it from a commandline on another port
and see what happens.

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