silient and very short auto-start

[Michael Widenius]

>>>>> "David" == David Hanney <dav3@stripped> writes:

David> Mysql works great after installing the freebsd3.1 binary
David> package - if started manually.  The problem is that it doesn't
David> auto-start at boot.

David> safe_mysqld seems to run without error.  But it quits (without
David> error) about 1 second later: Here is the log output:

David> mysqld started on Thu Apr 1 11:38:05 GMT 1999 mysqld ended on
David> Thu Apr 1 11:38:06 GMT 1999

David> Any ideas appreciated!

How did you start safe_mysqld ?

As safe_mysqld starts mysqld based on some checked paths, it should
always be executed as follows:

./bin/safe_mysqld &

Regards,
Monty