From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 20:50:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62B4106566B for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:50:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=0059cc19d1=johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [64.57.183.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE718FC0A for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:50:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 98206 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2011 20:50:53 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:vbr-info:user-agent:cleverness; s=17f9d.4d8e51ad.k1103; i=johnl@submit.iecc.com; bh=veIp7K8NMuKJvopxc8hKT1NwE8byU36MTwkBuD526Gc=; b=KxUOG2BT3dWnjyYZ3/TKtaeCBtbwtaKPlVpBe0dfg/HlJFKlVL1F88gSBjmS/m7M6EdRI+UFl2rWFWqkeOwV+mcxalnSjaNuo/49eJbsxMKsHKuxaM/7dYww1zIM5cZ/y1vCqk9rbC5yh3xxvxNi/SQHzMgGJpywLgL7YsdDfbU= VBR-Info: md=iecc.com; mc=all; mv=dwl.spamhaus.org Received: (ofmipd johnl@64.57.183.62) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 26 Mar 2011 20:50:31 -0000 Date: 26 Mar 2011 16:50:53 -0400 Message-ID: From: "John R. Levine" To: "Laszlo Nagy" In-Reply-To: <4D8E3CA4.8040808@shopzeus.com> References: <20110326174100.1617.qmail@joyce.lan> <4D8E3CA4.8040808@shopzeus.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Cleverness: None detected MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MySQL 3 needed but how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:50:55 -0000 > Starting mysql. > gw# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server status > mysql is not running. > gw# > > > There is nothing in /var/log/messages. Sounds like you'll have to do some debugging. Try adding --verbose to mysql_args in /etc/rc.conf, and see the other advice in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/starting-server.html It may be something really simple, like the mysql data directory not being where the server expects it to be. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly