I printed @INC to find all the paths where DBI could live and deleted them until my perl scripts failed for the missing module. I then reinstalled DBI from CPAN. Much to my chagrin, the new DBI install is looking for mysql at /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock rather than /tmp/mysql.sock which is where the mysql install puts it and mysql_config and /etc/my.cnf says it resides. Can anyone please tell me where DBI is gets its information so I can get this fixed? Thanks Mike