Hi all, First of all, thanks, Stephen, for your fast and helpful responses. I am tackling my problems one by one,as I meet them I tried to do a Z39.50 search, but I had some trouble, and I am clueless as how to solve this. -Question 1, do I have to set up something to make the Z39.50 start automatically? I started it manually (basically because I was not convinced it was running) but if I try to do a cat on a log file, my computer says it doesn't exist or just returns to the command prompt(see below) does that mean they are empty? I was a bit puzzled (not uncommon for me, but even so, I like things to work) -Question 2, the logs that do return something give this output, again, see below. Anybody can give me a hint or help where to go from here? And thanks once again, Marty Jongepier debian:/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon# ./z3950-daemon-launch.sh debian:/usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon# cd /usr/local/koha/log debian:/usr/local/koha/log# ls koha-access_log processz3950queue.pid z3950-daemon-20060321-2108.log koha-error_log z3950-daemon-20060320-2143.log z3950-daemon-20060321-2116.log opac-access_log z3950-daemon-20060320-2206.log z3950-daemon-20060321-2118.log opac-error_log z3950-daemon-20060320-2214.log debian:/usr/local/koha/log# cat z3950-daemon-2006321-2118.log cat: z3950-daemon-2006321-2118.log: No such file or directory debian:/usr/local/koha/log# cat z3950-daemon-2006321-2116.log debian:/usr/local/koha/log# debian:/usr/local/koha/log# cat *.log DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 140. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 143. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 148. DBD::mysql::st fetchrow failed: fetch() without execute() at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 149. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 140. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 143. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 148. DBD::mysql::st fetchrow failed: fetch() without execute() at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 149. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 140. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 143. DBD::mysql::st execute failed: MySQL server has gone away at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 148. DBD::mysql::st fetchrow failed: fetch() without execute() at /usr/local/koha/intranet/scripts/z3950daemon/processz3950queue line 149.