OK I have a strange problem that I have FINALLY narrowed down and hoping someone can help me resolve please. I am using the latest stable nightly MonetDB5 with SQL on Fedora core 8. If I run merovingian and then try to connect to my database using JDBC through my Java app, I get this error returned by JDBC: "Maximum number of redirects reached, aborting connection attempt. Sorry." However, if instead of running merovingian I run this from the shell: mserver5 --dbinit="include sql;" Then my JDBC connection works perfectly!! However, I need to start MonetDB in the background and use merovingian at boot time, so I am stuck. What does this 'maximum number of redirects reached' mean exactly? Why would I get this problem when using merovingian but not when using MonetDB? How can I resolve this or troubleshoot things further? I tried searching the web for this error message but didn't come up with anything related to monetdb. Thank you!!