Thanks for your help - of course it was as simple as &.
Best to all,
David
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Quentin Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When you say 'hangs', what do you mean? Does CTRL-C work? Does the server
> have to be killed with kill -9?
>
> Are you running the program in the background?
>
> # bin/safe_mysqld &
>
> If so, can mysql CLI connect to the running server?
>
> Regards
>
> quentin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Birchfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 15:57
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Starting server on Sun Solaris
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have completed the installation of MySQL on Solaris 8, but when I run
> safe_mysqld the machine just hangs after giving the prompt:
>
> "Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var"
>
> it seems to go ahead and write /tmp/mysql.sock but stalls after that.
>
> thanks for any troubleshooting help!
>
> Best,
> David
>
>
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david birchfield
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