I have 7.1 professional. I installed mysql and mysql-client off of disk 3 Mysql Ver 3.23.32 for pc-linux-gnu on i686 I have also run the mysql_install_db, which says that all files have been installed. I even ran /etc/init.d/mysql like someone else replied in this group to no avail. when running safe_mysql & 1) mysqld errors out 2) I get the following in linux.err Also, why did the package get built to be non-relocatable and in /usr/bin and not /usr/local/bin??? Jerry -------------------------------------------------------------- To see what values a running MySQL server is using, type 'mysqladmin variables' instead of 'mysqld --help'. The default values (after parsing the command line arguments) are: basedir: /usr/ datadir: /var/lib/mysql/ tmpdir: /tmp/ language: /usr/share/mysql/english/ pid file: /var/lib/mysql/linux.pid binary log: binary log index: TCP port: 3306 Unix socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock system locking is not in use Possible variables for option --set-variable (-O) are: back_log current value: 50 binlog_cache_size current value: 32768 connect_timeout current value: 5 delayed_insert_timeout current value: 300 delayed_insert_limit current value: 100 delayed_queue_size current value: 1000 flush_time current value: 0 interactive_timeout current value: 28800 join_buffer_size current value: 131072 key_buffer_size current value: 16773120 long_query_time current value: 10 lower_case_table_names current value: 0 max_allowed_packet current value: 1047552 max_binlog_cache_size current value: 4294967295 max_connections current value: 100 max_connect_errors current value: 10 max_delayed_threads current value: 20 max_heap_table_size current value: 16777216 max_join_size current value: 4294967295 max_sort_length current value: 1024 max_tmp_tables current value: 32 max_write_lock_count current value: 4294967295 myisam_sort_buffer_size current value: 8388608 net_buffer_length current value: 7168 net_retry_count current value: 10 net_read_timeout current value: 30 net_write_timeout current value: 60 open_files_limit current value: 0 query_buffer_size current value: 0 record_buffer current value: 131072 slow_launch_time current value: 2 sort_buffer current value: 524280 table_cache current value: 64 thread_concurrency current value: 10 thread_cache_size current value: 0 tmp_table_size current value: 1048576 thread_stack current value: 65536 wait_timeout current value: 28800 010307 18:59:03 mysqld ended 010308 06:43:43 mysqld started 010308 6:43:43 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 010308 06:43:43 mysqld ended 010308 17:48:08 mysqld started 010308 17:48:08 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13) 010308 17:48:08 mysqld ended -- Boycott the outlaw Microsoft - and use Linux - the Software that gives you Freedom to choose!