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From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
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Subject: RE: Trouble starting MySQL
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On Jan 12 at 09:35, Walker, Michael suggested:

>
> I installed MySQL from ports (mysql-4.1.7)
> then tried to start it. Nothing doing - wo way.
>
> Starting it from /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh nothing happens. No
> error message is emitted, but no running instance of mysql either.
>
> <snip>
>
> Read /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh you now have to start mysqld from
> your rc.conf file.
>
OK, I added the necessary stuff to /etc/rc.conf and attempted to start 
mysql via the mysql-server.sh script. Nothing doing.

I rebooted the box, checked to see if mysql was running. It wasn't.

I attempted once more to start it from the script - Nothing.

OK, I'm back to where I started.

Ideas?