Problems with mysqld running from /etc/rc.local in FreeBSD6

[Amitabh Kant]

I solved this problem by booting into the Fixit mode using the
installation Media (in my case the first CD of FreeBSD 6). Once inside
the Fixit mode, I mounted the root partition and changed the contents
of the file.

Seems pretty easy on hindsight, although I don't knwo if it has broken
my software Raid1 setup.

Thanks
Amitabh

On 3/5/06, Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Please excuse me for my ignorance, as I am fairly new to FreeBSD. I
> have a FreeBSD 6.0 running on a test system. I successfully installed
> mysql5 server from the ports collection. Now to make it start during
> the boot process, I created a file "/etc/rc.local" and entered the
> complete path of the mysqld_safe (/usr/bin/mysqld_safe if I am not
> wrong) in the same file.
>
> I later realised that this is not the correct way to start mysql
> daemon, but the problem is that I did not make any changes to the
> /etc/rc.local file. Now when I reboot the machine, the boot process
> simply stops after starting mysqld daemon. It will not go away even
> after trying Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Q or Ctrl-Break. I tried sshing into the
> machine from another system, but it seems that sshd is not up yet, so
> I can't just login and change the /etc/rc.local file. It is pinging
> the test machine without problems, so atleast the network interface is
> up. How do I go about wither bypassing the commands written in the
> "/etc/rc.local" file or editing "/etc/rc.local" file to comment out
> the offending mysqld line.
>
> If it is of any significance, I am running a software Raid1 setup on
> my test system.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Amitabh
>