Quoting Brett Astleford (bastleford at platinumdg.com): > OS: Mandrake 7.0 > MySQL Build: 3.22.32 > Also Running: > php 4.0.3 > apache 1.3.x > sendmail x.x > > Had to change hostname in mysql, now mysqld & safe_mysqld starts and then > dies instataneously. When I start mysqld, i get msg "Found old style > password for user ' ' restarting using old protocol" but still isn't > accessible via php page and/or GUI mysql client. > when I use safe_mysqld the daemon starts then dies without error message. > Any ideas??? Looks like the perms on your database are wrong. You probably had them setup for SELECT, DROP, etc access via the old hostname. Do a GRANT <perms> ON <database>.* TO <user>@<domain> And if you are using passwords, then UPDATE user SET PAssword=PASSWORD('<password>') WHERE user='<user>' I know there is a way to do this all in the GRANT, but I forget. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9