Dear Guy: I am not sure if the latest sqltest.pl (called by ./TEST) will now catch the problem you experienced on a LON-CAPA server. I would be curious to know more about the problem. Do you think it will be necessary to probe for mysqld in the process tables, or will /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld --status be enough? Regards, Scott -- Scott Harrison, sharrison@users.sourceforge.net