On Friday 13 December 2002 22:19, Benjamin Fisher wrote: > I'm fairly new to MySQL, and RDBMS's in general, but not to system > administration nor linux. I'm running Gentoo, and I can't seem to get > mySQL to work.
[skip] > My guess, it can't find the pid to stop it with. > > And the file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid (or something like that) doesn't > exist. > > Running 'safe_mysqld --user=mysql &' does the following: > > Gallio root # safe_mysqld --user=mysql & > [1] 5632 > Gallio root # Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql > 021213 11:47:23 mysqld ended Look in the error log file to see what is wrong with MySQL start. > When I escape out of that: > > [1]+ Done safe_mysqld --user=mysql > > I'm not sure what has gone wrong, but I'd like to get the mysql up and > running. > > BTW, what would be a worthy book to get on mySQL? -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
