I'm not calling anything. I didn't write this program, I bought it a number of years ago. I am not well versed in perl. I had a guy who was helping me with things who I trusted but he disappeared. Have actually been running this for almost 20 years with bunch of bug fixes etc. But yet it runs successfully every day on-line. I haven't changed anything in the script for localhost other than the shebang and had to fix some paths. My problem is trust. Who can I trust to help me? I mean I ask a serious question about a problem I'm having and some obnoxious guy mocks me? That's real helpful! I know under normal circumstances you would send script. But then what script do I send? Why would a program work with mariadb and not workbench? I really think it has something to do with that, not script. Sorry for the tantrum, but this is a frustrating experience.