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[Gunther Mayer]

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?
>   
The log that you attached suggests that you are starting dozens of 
chilli instances at regular intervals, something must be wrong with your 
init setup. First of all would you mind please upgrading to the latest 
stable (1.0.11) and following the official installation procedure? Also, 
as soon as you encounter problems, issue

ps wax |grep [c]hilli

and

ifconfig -a |grep tun

and send us the output which will help troubleshoot.

Gunther