Thanks Brett, I eneded up downloading CompleteMySQL which is a cocoa app and runs natively on OSX. It was a difficult thing to get running but fortunately a visiting software engineer was able to hack it and found out that I had a permissions issue with /tmp/var that didn't allow the mysql daemon to start but also fooled it into thinking mysql was running. 4 hours later I got it running! Brian On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 02:28, Brett Duncan wrote: > Hi Brian, > > from what you've written, it seems pretty clear that the mysql server > is not getting up and staying up. Hence when you try to use mysql, it > bails because it can't see the server. > > I seem to recall that I couldn't get mysqld_safe to work properly > either, but I found that mysqld (without the "safe" wrapper) would > work. So you might try > > shell> sudo /sw/bin/mysqld > > and see if that starts up okay. The other thing that I've just > remembered is that you may need to run the command > > shell> mysql_install_db > > in order to set up the grant tables. (You'll probably need to cd to > the installation directory, and may need to use sudo as well.) > > If you still cannot get the <insert preferred expletive> thing to > work, your choices look to be either to reinstall mysql through fink, > or, if you're not committed to doing it all under X11, you could > download CompleteMySQL from http://www.serverlogistics.com and run > the OSX installer package - this download includes a prefPane for > starting and stopping the server. You still run mysql in an X11 > shell, or you could use something like CocoaMySQL > (http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/) if you want to play entirely in > Aqua and not use X11 at all. The downside of using CompleteMySQL is > that fink will no longer show you whether your version is outdated, > and you only get a recent stable version, not the latest unstable (if > that is important for you). > > Let me know how you get on. > > Brett > > > >Additionally, > >I tried the method in the documentation at the end of the install and got: > >[Brian-OKeefes-Computer:/sw] brianoke% sudo /sw/bin/mysqld_safe & (I > >hit return here) > >[3] 1358 > >[Brian-OKeefes-Computer:/sw] brianoke% Password: > > > >When I entered my password it showed up in type and then a "command not > >found" > >error showed up. I have know idea what that means. > > > >Thanks guys, > >Here is the result of trying to start the mysql daemon: > >[Brian-OKeefes-Computer:/sw] brianoke% sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe > >Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /sw/var/mysql > >STOPPING server from pid file > >/sw/var/mysql/Brian-OKeefes-Computer.local.pid > >050318 10:21:57 mysqld ended > > > >Not knowing if this meant the daemon shut down (thou that seems the > >case) I ran: > >/sw] brianoke% mysql -u root > >ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > >'/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) > > > >So I'm sort of stuck? > >Brian > > > >
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