simon butsana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine that worked fine a couple of hours ago. > > After installing MySQL everything went OK and I have been able to shutdown > and restart it several times. > > After FreeBSD startup, I had to manually launch the following command to > manually launch the MySQL server daoemon: > > shell#support-files/mysql.server -u root -p start > > I expected the computer to prompt for MySQL admin password after OS > startup but it just fails and I cannot anymore gain access to system. > > Does anyone have a workaround for this?
Read this information on how to start ports at boot: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-starting-services.html Last time I installed MySQL, it installed a script for me. Check to see if one is there that just requires enabling per section 11.5.1 HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"