plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Under a newly installed copy of Slackware 12, I did a
> "chmod +x rc.mysqld" to ensure that mysqld is started
> during boot up. I then rebooted and tried to run
> mysqladmin to set the database's root password.
> I also tried the database initialization script.
> Unfortunately it seems that mysqld_safe refuses to run
> under Slackware. I even discovered that the rc.mysql script
> fails during startup.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> I then tried uninstalling and then compiling MySQL from
> source and installing that, but the server continues
> to exit during boot-up and when I try to run it
> from the command line, and without any useful error message.
>
> Thanks.
>

Anything in the MySQL or system log files?

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