At 20:57 -0400 7/2/03, <Song.Xu@stripped> wrote:
>Todd,
>
>It didn't help. Here is the message:
>----------------
>$ cd /usr/local/mysql
>$ ./bin/mysqld_safe
>The file /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld doesn't exist or is not executable
>Please do a cd to the mysql installation directory and restart
>this script from there as follows:
>./bin/mysqld_safe.
>$
>---------------------------
>It worked fine until yesterday. SA told me he had rebuilt /user/local
>directory
>this morning. All the files are still there after the build.
I'm surprised that you didn't consider this information relevant, and
that you only just now tell us this after several messages.
It seems most likely that the reason MySQL no longer starts properly is
that your SA broke something. In particular, it's likely that the server
was located at /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld and that it has been deleted.
> Actually I have
>two versions of mysql. I would like to start mysqld using different version
>of
>mysql that I installed in a different location. I wonder where the path
>'/usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld' stored in the system. Can we change this
>path
>somewhere in the parameter file?
That's the path where mysqld_safe is expecting to find the server.
If it's stored somewhere else, say /usr/sbin/mysqld, you can specify
the --ledir argument to mysqld_safe to indicate the directory where the
server is. For example, you can put this in /etc/my.cnf:
[mysqld_safe]
ledir==/usr/sbin
Then run mysqld_safe again and it should attempt to execute /usr/sbin/mysqld.
>
>Thanks,
>song
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Todd O'Bryan [mailto:toddobryan@stripped]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:56 PM
>To: Xu, Song PH/US/EXT
>Cc: mysql@stripped
>Subject: Re: The file /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld doesn't exist or
>is not executable
>
>
>Do what it says:
>
>cd /usr/local/mysql
>./bin/mysqld_safe
>
>and see if that's any better.
>
>Todd
>
>On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 05:18 PM, Song.Xu@stripped wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got the following message when trying to start the mysql instance:
>> ------------
>> $ mysqld_safe &
>> [1] 22717
>> $ The file /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld doesn't exist or is not
>> executable
>> Please do a cd to the mysql installation directory and restart
>> this script from there as follows:
>> ./bin/mysqld_safe.
>> -----------
>>
>> Can anyone help me to resolve this? It is emergency.
>>
>> Regards,
> > song
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