[SOLVED] Captive Portal Restart After Hardware Reboot

[support@etel.co.zw]

Dear Community,

I am new to OPNSENSE and its exciting.  My challenge is that , I am running OPNSENSE on XEN Server, when the  Server Hardware reboot, OPNSENSE reboots but Captive Portal will be down.   My Captive portal is using Free Radius as an authentication server.  I am having to restart the Captive Portal Service.

May you assist on this one.

Buta
Harare Zimbabwe

[QuentinC]

Hello,

Just to say that I'm experiencing the same behavior on my own configuration. In my case it's running on a dedicated hardware.

Thanks,

Quentin

[QuentinC]

Hello,

After some investigation on this, it seems that the PID file (/var/run/lighttpd-api-dispatcher.pid) is not cleaned when power outage occurs.
This file breaks the startup script of the Captive Portal.

I think that a simple check should be enough for this (checking that the PID is still alive).

Thanks,

Quentin Canel

[franco]

Hi Quentin,

Indeed, nice catch. A patch[1] is available for testing.

# opnsense-patch b3cfe6e


Cheers,
Franco

[1] https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/b3cfe6e

[QuentinC]

Works perfectly for me thanks !

[franco]

Yay, thanks for testing.