I meant, I couldnt use HOME environment variable to address .my.cnf file, because in the web server this environment variable doesnt point to my home directory so I have to hard code the address of .my.cnf file as mysql_read_default_file. Regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohammadreza Shojatalab European Bioinformatics Institute Tel: +44 (0)1223 494 669 EMBL Outstation Fax: +44 (0)1223 494 468 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hinxton, Cambridge URL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~shoja CB10 1SD, UK
