hi list, i am facing a problem inserting binary data into a blob field.this is my /etc/my.cnf file. [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock connect_timeout=60 [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib [safe_mysqld] err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid please help me. and this is what i get after running the comand mysql --help ....................... ....................... ....................... Possible variables for option --set-variable (-O) are: connect_timeout current value: 0 max_allowed_packet current value: 16777216 net_buffer_length current value: 16384 select_limit current value: 1000 max_join_size current value: 1000000 i guess there is some problem with connect_timeout.