on 8/6/01 10:13 PM, Trond Eivind Glomsrød at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Ling Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I have a fresh installed Linux 7.1 from Redhat. The mysal 3.23.36 was
>> installed together with the Redhat Linux. I can not start the mysql
>> server by executing /usr/bin/safe_mysqld &.
>
> You're not supposed to. To start mysql, as any service, do
<snip>
> What you've done (and too many others, where do they get this idea?)
um, perhaps from the INSTALL-SOURCE notes that come with the mysql
distribution
<quote from the aforementioned INSTALL-SOURCE>
After everything has been unpacked and installed, you should initialize
and test your distribution.
You can start the *MySQL* server with the following command:
shell> bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
</quote>
i believe it's the way most of the world does it.
> is that you've created the database files as root. Then you start the
> database, which will run as "mysql". This user can obviously not write
> to root's files. Change the ownership manually, and try again - with
> "service mysqld start".
-- mike cullerton
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