HELP Problems starting MySQL on Linux

[Christopher R. Jones]

I have tried Sinisa's suggestions to the following problem, nothing has
worked so far:

I have been using MySQL versions 3.22.X for the past 8 months.  I just
installed 3.23.5-alpha on Red Hat Linux.  The MySQL server starts if I use
./configure or safe_mysqld & but not if I use ./mysql.server start.  I have
installed the databases using scrips/mysql_install_db

I installed the binary in /usr/local/scr/mysql-3.23.5-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686
I created a symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/local/scr/mysql-3.23.5-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686 /usr/local/mysql

The .err file reports:
mysqld started on  Sun Dec 26 10:56:38 EST 1999
Can't change to run as user 'cr-jay.com' ;  Please check that the user exists!
991226 10:56:38  Aborting

mysqld ended on  Sun Dec 26 10:56:38 EST 1999

My hosts file:
127.0.0.1		localhost	localhost.localdomain
150.100.100.7		cr-jay.com	cr-jay
150.100.100.10	cjmobile	
150.100.100.09 	crjnt2

My /etc/my.cnf file:
[client]
#password	= my_password
port		= 3306
socket		= /tmp/mysql.sock

# Here is entries for some specific programs
# The following values assume you have at least 32M ram

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port		= 3306
socket		= /tmp/mysql.sock
skip-locking
set-variable	= key_buffer=16M
set-variable	= max_allowed_packet=1M
set-variable	= thread_stack=128K
# Start logging
log

[mysql.server]
user=root

[mysqldump]
quick
set-variable	= max_allowed_packet=16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash

[isamchk]
set-variable	= key_buffer=16M

I have checked in the mysql.server file and it sets the mysql_daemon_user
to root.


Thanks for any help.

Christopher R. Jones, P.Eng.
14 Oneida Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2E3
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Email cj@stripped