Hi list, May its a little bit OT but I don't understand the follow facts: First of all I usinig SuSE 6.4 and mysql. A nice feature of SuSE is the cleaning script which deletes file from the /tmp directory if they are not owned by root. The first Problem is, that mysql has in the standard installation his socket file in this location which is owned by the mysql user so this file is removed after one week. ( I havend found this error in the SuSE Support DB ! ) So I have put the socket file to /var/run ( In my opinion it should the perfect place ) :-) With "/sbin/init.d/mysql start" all is OK, but after each restart mysql will not automatic start. I had found that this is becaus the /var/run directory ist owned by root.uucp and has 775 pemissions, so mysql can't create the socket file as user mysql! But what is the great difference betwwen the start of the script /sbin/init.d/mysql from init and by "hand" as root In both cases I should be root or not? Bye Thomas