Ok, here we go... welcome another member...um

I'm trying to intall FreeRadius to use MySQL db to store user accounts..... well i sucsesfully install FreeRadius distribution and it works with text file user accounts, but when i tell the thing to use MySQL it says that library driver not found.... i was trying to complile with disabled shared libs but that didnt help....

also what i should mention is that i dont have any local copies os MySQL installed, i want to use remote server.... maybe thats a probem? but im nt reaaly know how to install MySQL under linux, u know im just a Windows Sysadmin => GUI person

Pease help, because it is gonna work or ill have a herat attack.......

You might wanna install MySQL client. I havent used Freeradius. Cheers

lol, what is MySQL client? I even havent ever heard about that ?

You're using RH9, it appears. It has a nice GUI to select the mysql packages you want to install. Select the MySQL-client package, and the dependencies should be selected/installed automatically.

MySQL-client is the package containing the client libraries, i.e. the code that knows how to make a connection to a remote MySQL server. The whole client-server thing...

ok, will try to install it, hopefully it wold work... but i alredy became a pesimist :-)

I've just downloaded MySQL Client RPM, how can i chek it it was installed?

from the command line:

rpm -q MySQL-client

ok, it says that pakage is not installed... im going crazy here....

Ill reinstall the system now, including the MYSQL server that comes with distribution, that ill install the freeradius with --disable-shared and will see what will happan....

:-(

and this is just a begining, how would i install it on PicoBSD i have no idea......

I just tried to reinstall the freeradius on a clean system that has MySQL running and i got errors during "make"

can any one tell me what those errors are and what to do with them?

Log file: rad_log.txt

As to what i see the erors are about the sql but, what and why?

If you're compiling FreeRadius, you need the MySQL source as well. There's probably a package for that--if not, mysql.com will have it.

yea, there there is a source pakage on mysql.com ... but what do i do with it? if i alredy installed MySQL that came with RedHat distribution?