In the last episode (Mar 06), Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: > [Moving to -questions; this isn't really a ports issue] > > On Monday, 5 March 2007 at 23:28:53 -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote: > > I built MySQL 5.1 from port on FBSD 6.2. But it doesn't start up on > > boot. There's a mysql-server script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but if > > I try and fire that up from the command line it doesn't start. What > > do I need to do? > > You could start by saying how you invoked the script and what happened > when you tried. You should see: > > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start > Starting mysql.
Also make sure you have mysql_enable="YES" in your rc.conf file, since it's an rc.subr-style startup script. See the mysql-server script itself for more options. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"