From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 20:31:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0229716A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 20:31:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from spock.ste-land.com (spock.ste-land.com [64.32.179.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D655843D2F for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 20:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ste@ste-land.com) Received: from ste-land.com (bgp377940bgs.plnfld01.nj.comcast.net [68.36.5.198]) by spock.ste-land.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D292D24C; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:31:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <404AA59D.6070209@ste-land.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 23:31:25 -0500 From: "Shaun T. Erickson" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Shaun T. Erickson" References: <404A997D.5090804@ste-land.com> In-Reply-To: <404A997D.5090804@ste-land.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mysql woes (self-inflicted) SOLVED X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 04:31:27 -0000 Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > I was having trouble getting mysql40 running, so I removed the server > and client packages. I then manually cleaned out the files under > /var/db/mysql. Then I rebuilt the server and client. > > Sadly, when I try to start the server, it complains that mysql.host - > one of the files I deleted - doesn't exist. > > How do I get all that stuff under var/db/mysql back, that I deleted? I had to rebuild the server with OVERWRITE_DB=yes. -ste