diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c38200faa..39dc59e11 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ $Source$
 2001-08-10  Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net> 
 	* russian updates (2 files) thanks to Max Zhivluck
 	* slovak updates thanks to Lubos Klokner
+	* defines.inc.php3, bug 449800, missing @
 
 2001-08-10  Steve Alberty  <alberty@neptunlabs.de>
 	* defines.inc.php3: improve mysql version query, thanks to
diff --git a/defines.inc.php3 b/defines.inc.php3
index e6b9abd46..ad3ffaada 100755
--- a/defines.inc.php3
+++ b/defines.inc.php3
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ if (defined('PHP_OS') && eregi('win', PHP_OS)) {
 // MySQL Version 
 
 if (!empty($server)){
-    $result = mysql_query('SELECT VERSION() AS version');
+    $result = @mysql_query('SELECT VERSION() AS version');
     if ($result != FALSE && @mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
         $result = mysql_query('SELECT VERSION() AS version') or mysql_die();
         $row    = mysql_fetch_array($result);