Gelu,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.  I did this:

whereis mysqld

and get this: 

mysqld:

which is really weird, because mysqld is located in /usr/local/mysql/bin

I would appreciate any advice you can offer me!  thanks! :-)

--- Gelu Gogancea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...sorry ... idon't read carefully your message...
> check with :
> whereis mysqld
> ... if is in /usr/libexec then check if is executable.
> If is in other directory "whereis" tell you and you can move "mysqld" from
> "whereis" to /usr/libexec.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon K. Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Mysql Help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:14 AM
> Subject: error message....somewhat lost
> 
> 
> >
> >  Hi All,
> >
> >  The other day, I tried connecting to mysql
> >  via the good old
> >
> > >mysql -u me -p
> >
> >  but I got a message saying that my mysql.sock is missing
> >  from the tmp folder.  After checking the mailing list
> >  archive, I decided (well, guessed is the more appropriate word)
> >  that I could try to re-start the daemon:
> >
> >  bin/safe_mysqld --log &
> >
> >  But i get this error message:
> >  The file /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld doesn't exist or
> >  is not executable
> >  Please do a cd to the mysql installation directory and restart
> >  this script from there as follows:
> >  ./bin/safe_mysqld.
> >
> >  Now I'm really confused!!  I tried entering a) ./bin/safe_mysqld and b)
> ./bin/safe_mysqld.
> >  (thinking that the period is part of the command...) but that didn't
> work.
> >  a) just gets me the same error message and b) isn't even a command! :-(
> >
> >  Comments?
> >
> >  Many thanks!
> >
> > simon
> >
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