On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 16:07 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I just installed Fedora Core 5, and I'm trying to get my mysql server > up. It shows as installed in rpm. When (as root) I run mysqld_safe, I get > > Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql > STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid > 061126 16:03:40 mysqld ended > > I have run chkconfig mysqld on, but I can't get the server to start. Any > and all help greatly appreciated. ---- sounds like it's already running...how to check? ps aux|grep mysql service mysqld status how to start it manually service mysqld start or service mysqld restart Craig