Re: Server startup error on Linux

2002-03-25 Thread Egor Egorov
Rance, Saturday, March 23, 2002, 1:27:37 AM, you wrote: RH Egor: RH Yes, im sure that the host.xxx tables are in the directory I specified to RH the mysql_install_db script. RH One thing to note.. RH This is a software package for my distro... I did not compile from source so RH I dont know

Re: Server startup error on Linux

2002-03-22 Thread Egor Egorov
Rance, Thursday, March 21, 2002, 9:30:26 PM, you wrote: RH I issued the chown command as indicated by Andreas RH but it doesnt help RH I still get the Table mysql.hosts doesnt exist RH I know that all the tables created by mysql_install_db are infact owned by RH mysql RH but the server daemon

Re: Server startup error on Linux

2002-03-22 Thread Rance Hall
by mysql_install_db are correct. --skip-grant-tables will allow the server to start, but a normal start is impossible Rance From: Egor Egorov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server startup error on Linux Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:38:03 +0200 Rance, Thursday, March 21, 2002, 9

Re: Server startup error on Linux

2002-03-22 Thread Egor Egorov
Rance, Friday, March 22, 2002, 4:53:41 PM, you wrote: RH here goes (not that it will give you any better information than I did RH already but since you asked...) RH exerpt from .err file follows RH 020318 14:30:48 mysqld started RH 020318 14:30:49 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.host'

Re: Server startup error on Linux

2002-03-22 Thread Rance Hall
. Thoughts? From: Egor Egorov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server startup error on Linux Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:32:00 +0200 Rance, Friday, March 22, 2002, 4:53:41 PM, you wrote: RH here goes (not that it will give you any better information than I did RH already

server startup error on linux

2002-03-21 Thread Rance Hall
Ok, I guess Im gonna have to do this again I have a Slackware 8.0 distro with the apache, php, and mysql install pkgs off of the cd I am logged in as root (not su'ed to root) and run the mysql_install_db script I run it with or without the --user=mysql qualifier in either case the databases

Re: server startup error

2002-03-21 Thread Gerald Clark
The group is not really important, as long as mysql owns the data directory and its contents. You can check /etc/group and see if you have a mysql group, or a group to which mysql is a member. Rance Hall wrote: Folks: I think you are on the right track with that Gerald.. I deleted all

RE: server startup error on linux

2002-03-21 Thread Andreas Frøsting
I assume that the mysql daemon is looking for one of those owned by mysql. The server will start if I send the --skip-grant-tables option Who wants to run a database with no grant tables Find out where your databases are located. Think /var/db/mysql is the default. Go there and

RE: server startup error on linux

2002-03-21 Thread Andreas Frøsting
I assume that the mysql daemon is looking for one of those owned by mysql. The server will start if I send the --skip-grant-tables option Who wants to run a database with no grant tables Find out where your databases are located. Think /var/db/mysql is the default. Go there and

Re: Server startup error on Linux

2002-03-21 Thread Rance Hall
I issued the chown command as indicated by Andreas but it doesnt help I still get the Table mysql.hosts doesnt exist I know that all the tables created by mysql_install_db are infact owned by mysql but the server daemon still cant find them what next?

server startup error

2002-03-20 Thread Rance Hall
Hello all I have a slackware 8.0 distro that includes mysql 3.39.x (I'm not at that computer now, so that could be wrong slighly) install pkg I have installed it, and I can get it to run with the --skip-grant-tables option. When I try to run safe_mysqld without the skip option I get the

Re: server startup error

2002-03-20 Thread Gerald Clark
Does mysql own the mysql database directory, and all its files? You should have run it as mysql_install_db --user=mysql Rance Hall wrote: Hello all I have a slackware 8.0 distro that includes mysql 3.39.x (I'm not at that computer now, so that could be wrong slighly) install pkg I have

Re: server startup error

2002-03-20 Thread Rance Hall
Folks: I think you are on the right track with that Gerald.. I deleted all the files in my data directory (they were just the ones that mysql_install_db creates) and then ran mysql_install_db --user=mysql This time, nothing was created, no files, or anything, cant even find an error message