Hello Jörg,

I couldn't write to /var/mysql/. I chowned the directory to mysql and now it
works fine. 
I'm sure I did that yesterday aswell. But it didn't worked out.
Anyway. Thanks a lot.

Zafer.

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
> An: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> Betreff: Re: mysql-server w linux
> Datum: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:38:09 +0100
> 
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:35:59PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> > Hello List,
> > 
> > I'm trying to build the mysql server (4 or 5) from pkgsrc under linux.
> > But I need help. I can compile and install it without any problems (all
> 3
> > three versions) but I can't start the mysql server. 
> > I'm using "mysql.server start" or the example rc.d script "mysql start"
> but
> > both fail. Any Ideas how I can get it working ?
> 
> Can you explain how it fails? If it does nothing, you haven't added
> mysqld=yes to your /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Joerg
>