That's exactly what I had to do as well. I wouldn't even start in rc.local unless I put in exactly what is shown below.
Ed On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > Do what it says: > > cd /usr/local/mysql > ./bin/mysqld_safe > > and see if that's any better. > > Todd > > On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 05:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I got the following message when trying to start the mysql instance: > > ------------ > > $ mysqld_safe & > > [1] 22717 > > $ The file /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld doesn't exist or is not > > executable > > Please do a cd to the mysql installation directory and restart > > this script from there as follows: > > ./bin/mysqld_safe. > > ----------- > > > > Can anyone help me to resolve this? It is emergency. > > > > Regards, > > song > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: > > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]