This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld with a clean error log, I get the following messages: 110720 21:38:47 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.5.14-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 2500 MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi 110720 21:38:48 [Warning] Access denied for user 'UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER'@'localhost' (using password: NO) The strange things is, AFAIK there are no clients trying to connect to mysql. I shutdown a mysql CLI monitor I had running, and did the restart again. So I'm just wondering why I get this message, when AFAIK there is nothing that should be trying to connect to mysql - unless it's a server daemon running somewhere? Has anyone else come across this funny error message? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------