On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 18:19, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > I don't like such a solution by adding an "unnamed" user with no > password to the mysql user database. Looks very ugly and is no good > style. > Even it is not neccessary. The simplest fix is to modify the line in the > init script where mysqladmin is called with the ping command to: > > mysqladmin -u DUMMY_USER ping > > Alexander > I forgot to say that I did not add an "unnamed" user. This is what was already in the default install. Scott