Trouble starting MySQL

[Colin J. Raven]

On Jan 12 at 05:36, Eric F Crist then said:

> On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Colin J. Raven wrote:
>
> I would check the /var/log/messages log file for anything related to mysql, 
> in this case.  There's a reason it won't start, and it'll be indicated there.
There is nothing related to mysql in /var/log/messages - which now I 
come to think about it is odd.

> My bad on the syntax.  After looking, I have a script called mysql-server.sh 
> that doesn't require an entry in rc.conf.  What version of mysql are you 
> using?  Was it installed from ports?  What version of FreeBSD?

No problem :)

mysql-4.1.7
installed from ports
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

-Colin