On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> 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.

I should start a new thread for this. I have the latest mysql4 from
pkgsrc up and running on -current but it dies sometimes. I'm pretty sure
it's a memory corruption issue because running "show databases" gave me
a partial listing of a random directory.

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