I tried to use xrtt to answer Ulrich Schmid on his question re: riswhois, but this ticketing system fails on me (it did work before). As I don't have time now to fix both riswhois and dive into the mysterious ways of xrtt, I've replied to Ulrich directly. -- Rene cow$ xrtt Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::system(), qualify as such or use & at /usr/local/ncc/bin/xrtt line 5589. /home/wilhelm/.xrttrc: No such file or directory DBI connect('mysql_read_default_group=rtt','',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) at /usr/local/ncc/lib/perl5/5.8.0/rttCommon.pm line 314 Could not connect to mysqldb: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Could not connect to mysqldb: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) at /usr/local/ncc/lib/perl5/5.8.0/rttCommon.pm line 908.