Matt, I'm fairly new to MySQL myself, but it sounds like your
mysqld is not starting up when you issue safe_mysqld. Instead
of invoking safe_mysqld directly, find the "mysql.server" file that
got installed with mysql, and start mysqld with that by doing
something like:
cd /dir/to/mysql.server
./mysql.server start
There's quite a bit more to consider, like what user you want
to start the server as, but try that first and see if that will
start the server for you.
HTH.
--
Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
http://www.missioncriticallinux.com
Matt Davis [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I am new to MySQL and have just installed the MySQL rpm files to my Linux
> box.
>
> I have run "mysql_install_db" with no problems and I have then run
> "safe_mysqld &" this comes up with the messsage
>
> "starting mysql daemon with databses from /var/lib/mysql
>
> mysqld daemon ended"
>
> I assumed that this was corrected and then ran "mysqladmin version" to which
> i recieved the following error message
>
> "can't connect to local mysql server through socket
> /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock (111)
>
> check that mysql is running and that the socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> exists"
>
> I can not find any mysql processes running when I type "ps" and I cannot
> find any sock files anywhere.
>
> What am i doing wrong can somebody please please help.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Matt Davis.
>
>
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