a *.pid file often signals to the *deamon (*d in ps -ef) that a process is running with the ID of the content of the *.pid file.
The *.pid file usually contains the 16bit PID (nothing in it doesn't sound right, 'not right' as in buggy --I trust what you said)
A civilized shutdown of a deamon usually removes the *.pid file.
Just try to remove the *.pid file and restart mysqld.
Is there a -v or --verbose, or debug option to get get more feedback when it fails?
Hippie Holidays...................... Horst
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:03:43 -0800 From: Zeb Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Eug-lug] I'm having a "little" trouble getting MySQL going
Hey I'm having problems getting mysql started on slackware. First I had a problem with the preinstalled version so I uninstalled it and reinstalled mysql 4.1.8 figuring starting from the begining might help. It sure seemed like it was going to be better this time but when I run:
bash-2.05b# ./bin/mysqld_safe
I get this: Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /mysql/data STOPPING server from pid file /mysql/data/ninjaz.pid 041224 14:42:49 mysqld ended
I looked at my pid file and there is nothing in there. If that means anything.
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