The only think I did was copy 'my-medium.cnf' to 'my.cnf' and ran
mysql_install_db (successfully) and then ran mysqld & as instructed which
didn't run successfuly and reported the errors below. I didn't change
anything in my.cnf, I didn't touch anything at all...
Is there a way that I can start fresh without reinstalling the OS?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: Can't get MySQL running on RH7.0 at all.
> The error logs seem to indicate that the pid file you've specified is not
> writable and that the system database tables are not installed properly.
>
> 1. make sure that you ran mysql_install_db. If you did, make sure that you
> didnt change the my.cnf datadir setting without moving your system files
or
> re running mysql_install_db.
>
> 2. ( #1 usually takes care of this, but ) make sure the pid file is
writable
> ( find path in error log message or ./mysqld --help or /etc/my.cnf if
you've
> overrided default )
>
> dpk
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 9:42 PM
> Subject: Can't get MySQL running on RH7.0 at all.
>
>
> > I must be a moron but I can't seem to figure out what I need to do to
get
> > mysql to work on RH, on Mandrake it just worked straight away.
> >
> > I read and followed the instructions in the INSTALL-BINARY (inspite of
the
> > fact that the way red hat installed mysql does not even closely resemble
> the
> > instructions) but mysql will not come up.
> >
> > This is the error log:
> >
> > 010917 11:26:38 mysqld started
> > 010917 11:26:38 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file:
'./mysql/host.frm'
> > (errno: 13)
> > 010917 11:26:38 mysqld ended
> >
> > 010917 11:32:09 mysqld started
> > 010917 11:32:10 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file
> > '/var/run/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 13)
> > 010917 11:32:10 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file:
'./mysql/host.frm'
> > (errno: 13)
> > 010917 11:32:10 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Error on delete of
> > '/var/run/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 2)
> > 010917 11:32:10 mysqld ended
> >
> > There must be some secret bit of knowledge that is obvious to everybody
> else
> > and i'm just not reading the right document or something. I'm sure
> somebody
> > has been able to install MySQL via the RPMs and get it to work.
> >
> > Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > Do I need to create a user called mysql and add them to the group root?
> I'm
> > suspicious of the permission problems...
> >
> > thanks for your time...
> >
> >
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