Hi,

I also noticed one thing , will the entry in the file
/etc/hosts make a diffrenece.

In Red Hat it is 
127.0.0.1 localhost

But in Slack it is
127.0.0.1 prasad( which is my name)

Regards,

Prasad
--- Prasad Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello gurus,
> 
> I have Slackware 8.0 and RHL7.1 both on my Linux
> box.
> In Red Hat mysql is working smoothly but I am having
> having following problems in Slack8
> In Slack8 mysql is installed as a per of standard
> installtion but not under /usr/local.The scripts are
> in /usr/bin and includes in /usr/include/mysql and
> libs in /usr/lib/mysql etc..
> I could see that there is a group mysql and user
> mysql
> added to it.
> I could not loacte mention of mysqld in any of the
> rc
> scripts.when as root I give command 
> /usr/bin/safe_mysqld &
> It gives me following messages:
> Starting mysqld daemon with databases from
> /var/lib/mysql and on the next line it says
> mysqld ended.
> 
> Also when as user mysql I give command
> mysql -u mysql -p it prompts for the password but
> after giving the password it gives error:
> can't connect to loacl mysql server through socket
> /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock
> 
> I also copied the file /etc/my-small.cnf to
> ~mysql/.my.cnf (This is as per documentation in
> my-small.cnf)
> 
> Still I am not able to log on to the database.
> 
> I am not able to understand why mysqld is ending.Is
> there any other thing I am missing which would start
> this daemon and then I can connect to database.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Prasad
> 
> 
> 
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