Hi, I wouldnt have thought so but whenever that file is missing and try the stop/restart it just sits at the waiting for pids part of the stop loop (where it lists the pids), and it never stops the server - i have left it for over an hour and it never stops - just keeps on in the stop loop.
Cheers Ian On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Sebastian Mendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > I am running mysql 5.0.45 on freebsd 4.11 and for some strange reason > > /tmp/mysql.sock keeps on disappearing and we are forced to kill -9 mysql > and > > restart it causing db corruptions as there is no other way of telling it > to > > stop once that file has gone. I have tried to find any reason why this > > happens and there are no errors, no core files, nothing - the file just > > disappears. > > why do you need to kill if the socket is missing? > > does $/etc/init.d/mysqld stop|restart not work without a socket? > > -- > Sebastian > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >