On 25 Oct2018, at 9:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2018, at 15:25, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
>> Starting MySQL
>> . ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file
>> (/Users/me/Databases/mysql/data/mysql.pid).
>>
>
> … It is curious that it is trying to update a pid file in your data directory
> when your cnf file appear to have told it to put it somewhere else, but I'm
> not sure if that's relevant. It might be, if the data directory and the place
> where the cnf file says to put the pid file have different permissions.
>
Sorry, that discrepancy re the pid file was a result of copying relevant
information from two different attempts…
File my.cnf does, indeed, now have line:
pid-file = /opt/local/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
have and the error when trying to start mysqld is:
Starting MySQL
. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file
(/opt/local/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid).
---
Murray Eisenberg [email protected]
503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240
Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
