On Fri Jan 24, 2003 at 11:15:03PM -0600, jerry wrote: > well i finally found the problem. > the main problem was the permissions on /var/lib/mysql > > after pouring over the post install instructions in the manual, and after > searching for my error, i found this: > > when mysql rpm's are installed: > /var/lib/mysql ... is owned by root and group root > > after changing the owner and group to mysql in recursive mode > it came up.
Right!! Now I remember... =) Yup, this is the fix. > you never know how the simplest things can be overlooked so easily. > now it comes up fine even at boot time. > > one of the posters in this thread mentioned my.cnf > and i didn't have one. so i snooped around (did a locate for .cnf) > and found 6 different my*.cnf files > so I chose one and copied it to /etc > > so there were 2 problems (the first one kept me from running mysqld) > probably would have run without the my.cnf, but probably not. You don't need a my.cnf. I don't use one (never have) and have never had a problem because I don't have one. Mind you, MySQL may not be optimized without it, but it isn't necessary for it to run. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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