Folks, I am trying to setup a replica of an environment currently running at the Cook Islands National Library in order to diagnose two problems. It is a Koha 2.2.6 install with MySQL 5.0 (I have made all of the documented sql changes plus a couple of undocumented ones to support mysql 5 thanks to "Katipo Chris") on Debian Sarge. All modules and system components are installed, the /usr/local/koha directory tree has been restored from the Cook Islands' backup as has the MySQL database. Everything looks good, except that a browser call to opac_main.pl yields the following error in the apache log: DBI connect('CKI:localhost','kohaadmin',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Context.pm line 411 Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value at opac-main.pl line 17. Running a quick "mysqladmin version" revealed that mysql socket location is actually /tmp/mysql.sock . However, /etc/mysql/my.cnf has both the client and server socket set to /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock . So I changed all mentions of /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock in my.cnf to /tmp/mysql.sock (and even set and exported the MYSQL_UNIX_PORT env variable for good measure) and restarted mysqld_safe, then requested opac-main.pl again and received the same error above. In summary, I cannot make mysqld_safe listen at anything other than /tmp/mysql.sock and I cannot make perl DBI/DBD::mysql attempt to connect anywhere other than /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock . Any ideas? -cht Chris Hammond-Thrasher MLIS Library Systems Manager University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji +679 3232233 hammondthrasher_c@usp.ac.fj