Hello, I've only had experience with PostgreSQL sofar, but have now to install MySQL (and WordPress) on a CentOS 6.4 /64 bit server. I have installed the mysql-5.1.69-1.el6_4.x86_64 package and executed the following commands: # chkconfig mysqld on # service mysqld start # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'xxxxx' # /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation Then I've noticed that mysqld_safe process is listening at 0.0.0.0 and decided to change that - so that my WordPress installation only uses domain sockets (or unix pipes? not sure). So I've modified the /etc/my.cnf to: [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=mysql # Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks symbolic-links=0 bind-address = localhost skip-networking enable-named-pipe [mysqld_safe] log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid But now MySQL refuses to start: # service mysqld restart Stopping mysqld: [ OK ] MySQL Daemon failed to start. Starting mysqld: [FAILED] The /var/log/mysqld.log contains: mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 8.0M InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option '--enable-named-pipe' [ERROR] Aborting InnoDB: Starting shutdown... InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 44233 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended I've searched Google and grepped /usr/share/mysql/*.cnf for that directive, but haven't found any hints there. Any hints please? Regards Alex _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos