Craig White wrote: > 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 That worked thanks much. New command (for me) service. Thanks again ---Michael