I am using RedHat6.2 on one box and Debian on another... both configured almost identically. Everything I've done has been through CPAN either with the .pm or directly d/l'ing and the whole `perl Makefile.PM;make;make test;make install;` routine. I've been away for the entire weekend and just got back now... so I'll try to get the latest sources for each of Perl 5.6 and MySQL and compile them directly on each box. Hopefully I'll be able to do this by just reading README's and other accompanying help texts. One of the servers crashed during the update with a pretty gross assertion and the other one werks great (ie. Perl runs fine and MySQL is running too) but DBD::mysql won't install on it because the make fails. I'm dismayed that no other monk has encountered this and I've done it twice. I must've done something in a really rotten order I guess. I'll try to relate my further travails if I am unsuccessful tonight. Thanks very much for the help all. TTFN & Shalom.

-PipTigger

p.s. Initiate Nail Removal Immediately!