I created the my.cnf file (for some reason, it was nowhere to be found) and passed it as an argument to mysqld_safe . That's it! Works beautifully now.
Thanks, Sachin On 4/3/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, 3 April 2006 at 2:29:48 +0530, Sachin Petkar wrote: > > On 4/3/06, Eric Braswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Sachin Petkar wrote: > >>> For some reason, MySQL 4.0.18 has suddenly stopped running and will > not > >>> start anymore. > >>> > >>> ... > >> > >> There are several possible reasons for this. ... > > > > Thanks to everyone, MySQL is back up and running. > > This was definitely enlightening! > > Did you establish what the cause of the problem was? > > Greg > -- > Greg Lehey, Senior Software Engineer > MySQL AB, http://www.mysql.com/ > Echunga, South Australia > Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 > VoIP: sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED], sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Are you MySQL certified? http://www.mysql.com/certification/ > > > -- Sachin Petkar Home : +91 80 4120 8542 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]