On Thursday 30 August 2007 14:34:34 Beech Rintoul wrote: > Read the *.err files in /var/db/mysql. It should tell you why it's > failing. > > Beech thanks, that led me right to it! antares# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server status mysql is running as pid 1738. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd at dfwlp.com