Jude DaShiell staggered into view and mumbled: > >It appears the reason for the 2002 error coming back from mysql is that >the user that tried to run mysql has first to be added to the mysql group. >I don't know how to do that form of the useradd command. It uses useradd >-G followed by a comma separated list of groups. Check out the man page for `usermod'. -- O Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. _PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1)