> 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