On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:15:16PM +0800, Neo Sok Lay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to start 2 mysql server processes on the same box (Redhat Linux
> release 6.2), using the following 2 commands:
>
> bin/safe_mysqld -u root --socket=/tmp/test1.sock --port=9000 &
>
> and
>
> bin/safe_mysqld -u root --socket=/tmp/test2.sock --port=9020 &
>
>
> Previously I was using mysql 3.23.27 beta and it works fine.
>
> Now I'm switching over to the newer version 3.23.32, and I am not able to
> start the second process any more.
> The second command keeps giving me "A mysqld process already exists"
> message.
>
> Is there any special setting that I need to make to solve the problem?.
>
Usually you would start the second mysqld using another data directory.
safe_mysqld places a .pid file in its data (.../var) directory which it
checks for when starting again. If you have separate data directories,
each will contain one .pid file and it works fine.
Fred.
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