Hi, I am using the mysql5 ports install as provided by macports. Since having installed it I have now upgraded to Leopard. MacOS X 10.5 changes any daemon users to start with an underscore, such as '_mysql' and this seems to be causing issues with the sql server, giving me the following error in the system.log: Dec 23 20:13:07 Ghostwalker com.mysql.mysql[2608]: 071223 20:13:07 mysqld ended Dec 23 20:13:07 Ghostwalker com.apple.launchd[267] (com.mysql.mysql): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds Dec 23 20:13:15 Ghostwalker com.mysql.mysql[2651]: Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /opt/local/var/db/mysql5 Dec 23 20:13:15 Ghostwalker com.mysql.mysql[2651]: rm: /opt/local/var/ run/mysql5/mysqld.sock: Permission denied Dec 23 20:13:18 Ghostwalker com.mysql.mysql[2651]: STOPPING server from pid file /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/Ghostwalker.local.pid What do I need to do to fix this? If the new nomenclature is to have daemon users starting with underscores, then I don't wish to go and change that, so there is probably something else I could be changing. Note that I have changed the launchdaemon file 'com.mysql.mysql' to read: /opt/local/bin/mysqld_safe5 --user=_mysql but even after a restart this does not seem to have changed anything, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Andre