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My sysadmin installed PHP as a client on my linux server. I have a script that I developed that opens a socket to accept data feed. This script works great if I run it off my windows pc using the cgi version of php but when I get it to the server it runs and it doesn't do anything. I did get an error message cause I had the mysql username wrong so it is reading the script. I checked the syntax with the -l command and I ran it with -a as well and nothing I created a test script that simply echoed my name and it worked great. any ideas? Thanks Randy