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I know this is bound to be something REALLY simple, but I can't seem to get safe_mysqld to run in background (Solaris 7/MySQL 3.23.37) If I try, as the root user, to start safe_mysqld from the /usr/local/mysql directory thus... ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql ...I get the following

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