I recently bought the book "MySQL" by Paul DuBois. I planned to do everything by the book this time. Honest; No cheating. I am determined to finally exercize the discipline necessary to learn a program the way you're supposed to, not wing it. Alas, and alack! First I read the README and then the README.SuSE and I find that Suse has made a decision to locate the files somewhere other than the traditional place until everyone gets their act together and settles on a standard place for the program to be installed. I'll go along with that. I set up and get the Apache server running and then I turn to the book. It says to start the mysql sever by typing mysql options, which I do. The response I receive is ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) My question; Is the reason I'm having trouble because of the non-standard installation suse has decided to temporarily use or is it the standard Unix/Linux you can't get there from here because the documentation is out dated when it's published because the developers have changed the distribution? BTH, does anybody know where the ERROR code list is located? Any help is appreciated. Rusty -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/