Re: won't start with mysqld_safe

[gerald_clark]

Anne Ramey wrote:
I had a server hacked last night and they did alot a damage, but I 
think I've got just about everything back up as normal...including a 
brand new mysql installation (4.0.21).  My problem is this.  The 
4.0.21 or the old 4.0.20 will not start using mysqld_safe and will 
start with mysqld if I don't run it as root.  there is not 
--user=something in my my.cnf which would prevent it from running as 
root.  I also don't understand why mysqld will run, but mysqld_safe 
won't.  mysqld_safe starts up and shuts right back down again without 
logging any errors:

040928 08:12:17  mysqld started
040928 08:12:17  mysqld ended
this is all my log says.  Any ideas?  Has anyone seem this before?  if 
not, can someone point me into the best way to debug this?  They both 
worked fine before the hack.

Thanks,
Anne

Does your system have a 'mysql' user, and does mysql have write 
permission to the data directory.
If the mysql daemon can not write to the log file, it temrinates.

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