Jerry, I don't personaly use mySQL, but I have seen a lot of updates related to it on the ftp site. Take a look and see if there is something that could fix your problem. I think it has issues which is why there are updates. Regards, * Jerry Davis (jfdecd@execpc.com) [010309 18:15]: =>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??? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.