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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:23:35 +0100
From:      "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
To:        "Walker, Michael" <Michael.Walker2@capita.co.uk>
Cc:        "Freebsd-Questions \(E-mail\)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Trouble starting MySQL
Message-ID:  <20050112112234.U802@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
In-Reply-To: <A95E24C61BD9D611AF6200080255E43A0BC066BA@CAPITAEMAIL02>
References:  <A95E24C61BD9D611AF6200080255E43A0BC066BA@CAPITAEMAIL02>

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On Jan 12 at 10:20, Walker, Michael then said:

> Colin J. Raven wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Did you added mysql_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf?
>

Yes, it's in there, as per your instructions :-)



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