Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 11/27/06, Michael Satterwhite <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. >> >> ---Michael >> > > Send us the output of `service mysqld status` and the contents of > /var/log/mysqld.log (stripping any personal data if any of course) > I would have been happy to, but with the "service mysqld start" I was told of in the last message, it's now working. Thanks much ---Michael