Its doesn't look like you are starting the process as root. Turn into root then start the process. Then exit turn back into you're user account and use mysql.
Regards, A$ ----- Original Message ----- From: Jbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:26 pm Subject: Newbie question for MySQL > I installed MySQL 4.0.4-beta from a cdrom that came with the book > "Teach yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache" (a SAMs publication) on a > linux 7.2 OS. I installed the binary distribution and attempted > to follow the directions from the included manual. > > When I execute the command: > .bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql & > I see displayed: > starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data > mysqld ended > > then I hit a carriage return and see > [1]+ done bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql > > And I grep for the process mysql using ps -ef and it is not there. > > I found a file called $hostname.err and it said "Can't find > messagefile 'mysql-4.0.4-beta-pc-linux-gnu- > i686/share/mysql/englishy/errmsg.sys'". Does this mean I don't > have some environment variables set up correctly? So how do I > start debugging this problem? > > thanks > Joel
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