Hello. My name is Emil, I'm from at company called ES Design. My problem is that I whant to do this. When a user creat's a database it shoudl be installed in ~userdir/my_db and when root/superuser creat's a database is would be in /path/to/mysql/var. I have understand that it would work... with help of my.cnf file... but I can't get it to work. Please help. Here is the spec. of my system. 1.Slackware linux 7.0 2. Mysql Ver 11.9 Distrib 3.23.29a-gamma, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) I'll hope that this would be enough information for U to help me.... - Emil Sykkö e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if posible please answer in swedish.... =) as U can see so isnät my english so good.. =)