catatrostrophy averted with kill -9 8374, and started up fine. thx, John -----Original Message----- From: John Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:18 PM To: 'john' Subject: RE: Help. I have truly blundered.
> -----Original Message----- > From: john [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 April 2002 23:45 > To: MySQL Lists > Subject: RE: Help. I have truly blundered. > > > .....looking for answers: > ps aux revealed the following: > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 8374 0.0 0.0 1668 0 ? SW Oct 28 0:00 > (safe_mysqld) > > [root@ns1 init.d]# kill 8374 (returns after nothing was done) Use kill -9 to really kill it. Try checking the system log files, or whereever you set mysql to log to. There maybe some clues in there. Let us now if there are any mysql entries. Cheers John --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php