Hello, i need to pass the string '%d %b %Y %T' inside a query to mysql (as a date format). Unfortunately this gets expanded to '07 0 2006 2006-11-07-00.06.18.000000' which leads to an sql error and crashes freeradius with a segmentation fault. I found a post from Nicolas Baradakis who advises to double the percentage-signs. I tried this too, but this creates a string like this '%0d %0b %0Y %0T' which again leads to a sql error (but without crash) How can i pass this string literaly without any variable-substitution? I'm running "FreeRADIUS Version 1.0.0" Thanks in advance for your help... Yours Olaf Kolling -- ******************************************************************** W³Welt Web-Entwicklung -------------------------------------------------------------------- Olaf Kolling eMail: info#w3welt.de Mörikestraße 67 Tel.: +49 711 96666-200 70199 Stuttgart Fax: +49 711 96666-201 ********************************************************************