I am tring to install LAMP on fedora core 7 i have installed mysql ( mysql-5.0.45 ) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --localstatedir=/usr/local/mysql/data --disable-maintainer-mode --with-mysqld-user=mysql --enable-large-files-without-debug make && make install and every thing went fine inorder to tell the system where ro find the dynamic libraries i added echo "/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql" >> /etc/ld.so.conf when i ran the following command it gave me the this error # ldconfig [root@v3 bin]# ldconfig -v ldconfig: Cannot stat /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15: Permission denied/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql: ldconfig: Cannot stat /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so: Permission denied ldconfig: Cannot lstat /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0: Permission denied the permission in this direcory is as follows : [root@v3 bin]# ll /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/ total 2384 -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 12376 2008-03-29 20:18 libdbug.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 48896 2008-03-29 20:18 libheap.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 369964 2008-03-29 20:18 libmyisam.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 27578 2008-03-29 20:18 libmyisammrg.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 641264 2008-03-29 20:18 libmysqlclient.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root mysql 875 2008-03-29 20:18 libmysqlclient.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-03-29 20:18 libmysqlclient.so -> libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-03-29 20:18 libmysqlclient.so.15 -> libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root mysql 530840 2008-03-29 20:18 libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 289666 2008-03-29 20:18 libmystrings.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 315422 2008-03-29 20:18 libmysys.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 7582 2008-03-29 20:18 libvio.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root mysql 89036 2008-03-29 20:18 libz.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root mysql 761 2008-03-29 20:18 libz.la can some one help me out why i am getting this Premission denied error Thanks a million!! -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com