diff -urN cyrus-sasl-2.1.14/plugins/mysql.c cyrus-sasl-2.1.14-modified/plugins/mysql.c
--- cyrus-sasl-2.1.14/plugins/mysql.c	2003-05-14 13:46:02.000000000 -0500
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1.14-modified/plugins/mysql.c	2003-07-09 00:49:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -323,9 +323,14 @@
 	
 	if (settings->mysql_verbose)
 	    sparams->utils->log(NULL, SASL_LOG_WARN,
-				"mysql plugin try and connect to %s\n",
+				"mysql plugin trying to connect to %s\n",
 				cur_host);
 
+	if(mysql_init(&mysql) == NULL) {
+		sparams->utils->log(NULL, SASL_LOG_WARN,
+ 	               "mysql plugin: could not execute mysql_init");
+		goto done;
+	}
 	sock = mysql_real_connect(&mysql,cur_host,
 				  settings->mysql_user,
 			          settings->mysql_passwd,