Thanks - good catch.
Everytime I tried to run less /var/log/mysqld.log, it would tell me that it's a binary file but I didn't try to 'cat' it until I was going to post it to the list.
Yeah. Sometimes less tries to be too smart for its own good. cat just does what it is told.
Thanks
No problem, I'm glad it worked.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center