I am asking about MySQL connections to a database *other than* the usual radius database. For one of my wireless SSIDs, part of the authorization process invokes a perl script which opens a MySQL handle to a different database, does a query, destroys the handle, and returns the value to radiusd. There's a lot of overhead in this so I would like to make radiusd open a pool of handles to this database, as it does with its own database. What's the approved method for making radiusd open persistent connections to an arbitrary database, and then using these handles from a perl module? Cheers, Jonathan ---------------------------- Jonathan Gazeley Systems Support Specialist ResNet | Wireless & VPN Team IT Services University of Bristol ----------------------------