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Hmm.. The permission denied is suspicious... you are starting the  
service as root? When you are having problems, how many tun devices  
do you see in an ifconfig? Similarly, do you see multiple instances  
of chilli running when you ps|grep chilli?

David

On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Urech Bruno wrote:

>
> Hi all
>
> Yesterday i found out that since last Thursday, April 24, 2008 all  
> 10 minutes the following message is written in the messages log on / 
> var/log of my Ubuntu 7.04:
>
> Apr 27 07:50:01 test2 coova-chilli[16589]: ChilliSpot 1.0.8.  
> Copyright 2002-2005 Mondru AB. Licensed under GPL. Copyright  
> 2006-2007 David Bird <dbird at acm.org>. Licensed under GPL. See  
> http://www.chillispot.org/ & http://coova.org/ for details
>
> In the syslog is additionally mentionned, that there is a problem  
> with the tun device:
>
> Apr 30 06:40:01 test2 coova-chilli[17716]: ChilliSpot 1.0.8.  
> Copyright 2002-2005 Mondru AB. Licensed under GPL. Copyright  
> 2006-2007 David Bird <dbird at acm.org>. Licensed under GPL. See  
> http://www.chillispot.org/ & http://coova.org/ for details.
> Apr 30 06:40:01 test2 coova-chilli[17716]: tun.c: 631: 13  
> (Permission denied) open() failed
> Apr 30 06:40:01 test2 coova-chilli[17716]: chilli.c: 3238: Failed  
> to create tun
> Apr 30 06:50:01 test2 coova-chilli[17776]: tun.c: 631: 13  
> (Permission denied) open() failed
> Apr 30 06:50:01 test2 coova-chilli[17776]: chilli.c: 3238: Failed  
> to create tun
>
> As the chilli service hung, last Friday - the subscribers did  
> receive an IP address, but were no longer redirected to the login  
> page, i tried to restart the chilli service. But as chilli restart  
> did not work, i tried also out the following:  chilli restart;  
> chilli condrestart; chilli reload, as written wen just giving  
> chilli and enter: start|stop|restart|condrestart|status|reload| 
> radconfig . After each of them, the chilli seamed to be running,  
> but the redirection only worked after a restart of the whole  
> server. After restarting, the chilli service was up and the  
> subscribers where redirected again, as usually, but only  
> submentioned messages appear.
>
> Can somebody imagine and describe, what i do wrong, where this  
> messages are from, how and what occures and how can i remove them?
>
> Thank you
>
> Yours
>
> Bruni
>
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