Anne Ramey wrote:
> I had a server hacked last night and they did alot a damage, but I
> think I've got just about everything back up as normal...including a
> brand new mysql installation (4.0.21). My problem is this. The
> 4.0.21 or the old 4.0.20 will not start using mysqld_safe and will
> start with mysqld if I don't run it as root. there is not
> --user=something in my my.cnf which would prevent it from running as
> root. I also don't understand why mysqld will run, but mysqld_safe
> won't. mysqld_safe starts up and shuts right back down again without
> logging any errors:
>
> 040928 08:12:17 mysqld started
> 040928 08:12:17 mysqld ended
>
> this is all my log says. Any ideas? Has anyone seem this before? if
> not, can someone point me into the best way to debug this? They both
> worked fine before the hack.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
>
Does your system have a 'mysql' user, and does mysql have write
permission to the data directory.
If the mysql daemon can not write to the log file, it temrinates.
