On 2008-04-01, mufurcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After every system boot I am loosing the mysql server directory from /var/run, > ergo the socket file from /var/run/mysql.
Ugh sorry, I should have read the rest of your mail... > # ps -aux | grep mysqld > root 10008 0.0 0.1 644 536 C0- I 7:25AM 0:00.01 /bin/sh > /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe > _mysql 11507 0.0 3.2 40396 16944 C0- S 7:25AM 0:00.44 > /usr/local/libexec/mysqld --basedir > > # cd /var/run/mysql > ksh: cd: /var/run/mysql - No such file or directory there is something going wrong with mysqld_safe then, because it creates the directory to hold the socket if it doesn't already exist... > # Make sure that directory for $safe_mysql_unix_port exists > mysql_unix_port_dir=`dirname $safe_mysql_unix_port` > if [ ! -d $mysql_unix_port_dir ] > then > mkdir $mysql_unix_port_dir > chown $user:$group $mysql_unix_port_dir > chmod 711 $mysql_unix_port_dir > fi so... > /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe >/dev/null 2>&1 & try removing the redirection to /dev/null and look for error messages from mysqld_safe.
