Connie,
The port you have specified (1020) requires root permissions as does any
port 1024 and below. The normal port is 3306. I'm suspecting that your
mysql server installation is configured to run as mysql or some user
other than root. Change the port to something above 1024 and you shoul
I have installed the following rpm's for mysql on my node
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
MySQL-client-standard-5.0.15-0.rhel4
MySQL-server-standard-5.0.15-0.rhel4
MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.15-0.rhel4
MySQL-devel-standard-5.0.15-0.rhel4
The node is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# unam
> My ISP is running on Cobalt RaQ4, so I downloaded mySQL Cobalt version to
> my web server. The installation was successful but now I don't know how to
> start mySQL. I tried telnet-ing to my server and got into the mySQL
> directory but that was as far I got. Everytime I tried to execute a
> co
