First question, is the only way to get Accounting data from FreeRadius by using one of the supported databases (like msql)? Is there no way to just cut records to a text file or, ideally, syslog? Second question: I inserted the following sql configuration (supplied to me) into sql.conf but when I start FR, it errors out with this message. Can someone tell me what is wrong? including configuration file /usr/local/freeradius/etc/raddb/sql.conf /usr/local/freeradius/etc/raddb/sql.conf[13]: Invalid expansion: '%{User-Name}',\ Errors reading /usr/local/freeradius/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf ############################ # MySQL settings for accounting ############################ sql { driver = "rlm_sql_mysql" server = "localhost" login = "<user_for_mysql>" password = "<password_for_mysql>" radius_db = "radius" accounting_start_query = "INSERT into ACCOUNTING SET\ `User-Name` = '%{User-Name}',\ `Calling-Station-Id` = '%{Calling-Station-Id}',\ `Called-Station-Id` = '%{Called-Station-Id}',\ `NAS-IP-Address` = '%{NAS-IP-Address}',\ `NAS-Port` = %{NAS-Port},\ `Timestamp Start` = NOW(),\ `Acct-Unique-Session-Id` = '%{Acct-Unique-Session-Id}' " accounting_update_query = "UPDATE ACCOUNTING SET\ `Acct-Session-Time` = '%{Acct-Session-Time}',\ `Acct-Input-Octets` = '%{Acct-Input-Octets}',\ `Acct-Output-Octets` = '%{Acct-Output-Octets}',\ `Acct-Input-Packets` = '%{Acct-Input-Packets}',\ `Acct-Output-Packets` = '%{Acct-Output-Packets}'\ WHERE `Acct-Unique-Session-Id` = '%{Acct-Unique-Session-Id}'\ LIMIT 1 " accounting_stop_query = "UPDATE ACCOUNTING SET\ `Timestamp Stop` = NOW(),\ `Acct-Session-Time` = '%{Acct-Session-Time}',\ `Acct-Input-Octets` = '%{Acct-Input-Octets}',\ `Acct-Output-Octets` = '%{Acct-Output-Octets}',\ `Acct-Input-Packets` = '%{Acct-Input-Packets}',\ `Acct-Output-Packets` = '%{Acct-Output-Packets}',\ `Acct-Terminate-Cause` = '%{Acct-Terminate-Cause}'\ WHERE `Acct-Unique-Session-Id` = '%{Acct-Unique-Session-Id}'\ LIMIT 1 " } -Mike