On Wednesday 02 June 2004 9:40 pm, Nick Mudge wrote:
Here are the results
nick@linux:/usr/sbin> su Password: linux:/usr/sbin # rcmysql status Checking for service MySQL: unused linux:/usr/sbin # rcmysql start Starting service MySQL failed
Sorry, had you already said if you checked the permissions on /var/lib/mysql? The files do need to be owned by mysql. Mine have owner mysql, group daemon with -rw-rw----. There may be smarter ways, but in the past when I have had mysql screwup and there is no data, I have rm -fr /var/lib/mysql, then /etc/rc.d/mysql start and that took care of it. Might be safer to mv mysql dir elsewhere instead of rm. Greg Engel