On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:48:06AM -0600, Francisco Valladolid Hernandez wrote:
> Hi, thanks for your reply.
> 
> The central problem is that i can't start the mysql daemon (mysqld_safe 
> --user=mysql)
> I has created the cluster with mysql_install_db ok, ... at the time tha 
> i run the daemon it exit with no information and no backround process.

I just set up mysql for the first time last weekend, and I had trouble
with this too.  mysql's error log is /var/mysql/*.err.

make sure that everything under /var/mysql is owned by the mysql user.
that was the main problem I had.

-Chuck