Hello again, This may shed some light on the situation. When I run in debug mode with -x option, it looks like it may be connecting. Am I interpreting the output correctly? If so, is it normal to connect 5 times?
Cliff Starting - reading configuration files ... Using deprecated naslist file. Support for this will go away soon. Module: Loaded exec rlm_exec: Wait=yes but no output defined. Did you mean output=none? Module: Instantiated exec (exec) Module: Loaded expr Module: Instantiated expr (expr) Module: Loaded PAP Module: Instantiated pap (pap) Module: Loaded CHAP Module: Instantiated chap (chap) Module: Loaded MS-CHAP Module: Instantiated mschap (mschap) Module: Loaded System Module: Instantiated unix (unix) Module: Loaded eap rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type md5 rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type leap rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type gtc rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type mschapv2 Module: Instantiated eap (eap) Module: Loaded preprocess Module: Instantiated preprocess (preprocess) Module: Loaded realm Module: Instantiated realm (suffix) Module: Loaded SQL rlm_sql (sql): Driver rlm_sql_mysql (module rlm_sql_mysql) loaded and linked rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/radius rlm_sql (sql): starting 0 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_mysql #0 rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #0 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #0 rlm_sql (sql): starting 1 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_mysql #1 rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #1 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #1 rlm_sql (sql): starting 2 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_mysql #2 rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #2 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #2 rlm_sql (sql): starting 3 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_mysql #3 rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #3 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #3 rlm_sql (sql): starting 4 rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_mysql #4 rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #4 rlm_sql (sql): Connected new DB handle, #4 Module: Instantiated sql (sql) Module: Loaded Acct-Unique-Session-Id Module: Instantiated acct_unique (acct_unique) Module: Loaded files Module: Instantiated files (files) Module: Loaded detail Module: Instantiated detail (detail) Module: Loaded radutmp Module: Instantiated radutmp (radutmp) Initializing the thread pool... Listening on authentication *:1812 Listening on accounting *:1813 Ready to process requests. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cliff Hayes Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Install - Freeradius can't connect to MySQL Hello, Warning - newbie installing Freeradius. I get this in the radius.log even though the sql.conf has the correct host/user/password (and I can access MySQL from the command line using the same login criteria): Wed Jun 7 14:01:52 2006 : Info: rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #0 Wed Jun 7 14:01:52 2006 : Error: rlm_sql_mysql: Couldn't connect socket to MySQL server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:radius Wed Jun 7 14:01:52 2006 : Error: rlm_sql_mysql: Mysql error 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)' Wed Jun 7 14:01:52 2006 : Error: rlm_sql (sql): Failed to connect DB handle #0 Wed Jun 7 14:01:52 2006 : Info: Ready to process requests. Thanks, Cliff - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

