Sep 29 17:09:50 dns ser: WARNING: fix_socket_list: could not rev. resolve 192.168.0.254 Sep 29 17:09:50 dns ser: WARNING: fix_socket_list: could not rev. resolve 192.168.0.254 Sep 29 17:09:50 dns /usr/local/sbin/ser[11517]: Maxfwd module- initializing Sep 29 17:09:50 dns /usr/local/sbin/ser[11517]: new_connection(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Sep 29 17:09:50 dns /usr/local/sbin/ser[11517]: db_init(): Could not create a connection Sep 29 17:09:50 dns /usr/local/sbin/ser[11517]: ERROR: auth_db_ver: unable to open database connection Sep 29 17:09:50 dns /usr/local/sbin/ser[11517]: auth_db:str_fixup(): Error while querying table version Sep 29 17:09:50 dns /usr/local/sbin/ser[11517]: ERROR: fix_expr : fix_actions error grep sock /etc/my.cnf socket = /tmp/mysql.sock From reading on Google I found that it is a miss match of server and client. How can I fix that? BTW, mysql --version mysql Ver 12.21 Distrib 4.0.15, for suse-linux (i686) Is there an easy way to upgrade :-) bye Ronald Wiplinger