Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1461 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 17 May 2009 23:34:08 Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 23:29 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 May 2009 23:22:08 Mike McMullin wrote:
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root         0 2009-05-16 16:41 mysqld.pid
> >
> > The pid file is 0 bytes large. Are you sure mysql is running at all?
>
>   Yast->System->System Services indicates Yes* (with the astersisk),
>
> CLI result as root:
>
>  rcmysql status
> Checking for service MySQL: checkproc: Empty pid
> file /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.pid for /usr/sbin/mysqld
>
> unused

Exactly, but the best way would be

ps aux|grep mysql

If it isn't, try starting it by hand

rcmysql start

and see if you get any error messages. You probably also want to check log 
files

Anders
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx