Hi Thomas On 2005-05-11 Thomas Schoepf wrote: > It's a database. The MySQL Administrator calls it a Schema. Ah, ok :)
> > If so, just issue a "SHOW TABLES;" etc in the command line client or > > look into /var/lib/mysql/ (if it's not innodb) to see if your files > > really went away after you tried to remove them. > > The strange thing is that it does go away - temporarily. I looked into > /var/lib/mysql and there was no directory "test" anymore after dropping this > database. But it reappears after several days to a few weeks. Take a look at the timestamp of the directory and the tables within (if there are any tables) and cross-check that with the runtimes of your cronjobs and /etc/cron.daily/*, /etc/cron.d/* and /etc/logrotate.*/* (and of course with the times you fire up this administrator who might think that he is in charge of recreating it...:)) bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]