Ah, errno. How well I've learned to hate you from MySQL's error messages. "Something bad happened! Errno 131! But I'm not going to tell you what that means!"
MySQL does, however, come with a perror command. Thusly: $ perror 131 MySQL error code 131: Command not supported by database Amazing! Filling the gaps with a commandline tool! Too bad I'm usually remote from my database. On the plus side, it handles system errors too: $ perror 104 OS error code 104: Connection reset by peer Still, MySQL folks? Think you could just call perror and return the string along with the numeric code? It'd be a good bit less hateful. -- <> :#,_@ v <^ " Michael Leuchtenburg | http://slashhome.org/ " +73 ^ " cell: 413.433.0739 " +7<
