debian: running init scripts from cron

[John Hawley <jhawley@bgea.org>]

Hello,

I'm sure this is quite the Debian rookie question, but is there some
trick to getting an init script to run from cron?  I'm running a radius
server that needs restarted when the users file is modified, and just
rerunning the init script from cron worked fine under Mandrake but fails
under Debian.  I get the messages from the /etc/init.d/radiusd script
that radiusd has been restarted, but the pid on the process has not
changed, so I know it wasn't actually done.  Running the script manually
from root works fine.

Am I missing some security related thing here?  Let me know if I should
post more detail.  Thanks.

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John Hawley
Network Administrator
IT Services // BGEA
612.335.1334 <=> jhawley@bgea.org