From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 14:09:44 2005 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 9C8E116A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:09:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from debian.akroteq.com (rdbck-static-72.palmer.mtaonline.net [12.17.141.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237C843D41 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:09:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@firman.us) Received: from andy by debian.akroteq.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CojBp-0004XS-MD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:09:37 -0900 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:09:37 -0900 From: Andy Firman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050112140937.GA17381@akroteq.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: Trouble starting MySQL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andy Firman List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:09:44 -0000 On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:35:21AM -0000, Walker, Michael wrote: > > Greetings all, > 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. > > > > Read /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh you now have to start mysqld from > your rc.conf file. I am confused. I run FreeBSD 4.10 stable with mysql-server-4.0.21 installed from the ports. I have nothing in my rc.conf file for mysql, but I do have a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh file. When I rebooted the machine last month, mysql started without anything in the rc.conf file. Why?