From: Christian Mack
Date: March 18 1999 12:51pm
Subject: Re: Service fails to start
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Michael Widenius wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Glen" == Glen de Vries <gdev@stripped> writes:
> 
> Glen> Monty,
> Glen> In response to your inquiries for our difficulty in starting mysql as a
> Glen> service...
> 
> >> Which MySQL version ?
> 
> Glen> 3.22.20
> 
> >> Did you run 'mysqld-nt --install' ?
> 
> Glen> Yes, and I checked the registry. I have the same problem with mysqld-nt and
> Glen> mysqld
> 
> >> If you are using the registered version, try using 'mysqld' instead of
> >> mysqld-nt with a C:\my.cnf file that has the following entry:
> >>
> >> [mysqld]
> >> debug
> 
> Glen> I did a mysqld-nt --remove, then mysqld --install, then started it as a
> Glen> service with the my.cnf. Here's what I got in the trace:
> 
> <cut>
> 
> Glen> T@1    : | | >my_open
> Glen> T@1    : | | | my: Name: '\my\share\english\errmsg.sys'  Flags: 36864
> Glen> MyFlags: 0
> Glen> T@1    : | | | error: Got error 2 on open
> Glen> T@1    : | | <my_open
> 
> <cut>
> 
> The problem is that somehow MySQL doesn't find the path to mysqld!
> This works for me on my NT SP3 machine :(
> 
> Do you have a C:\my.cnf file ?
> 
> You can problaby solve the above with any of the following solutions:
> 
> - Install mysqld with full path:
>   C:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt --install
> 
> - Create a my.cnf file with the following information:
> 
>   [mysqld]
>   basedir=C:/mysql/
> 
> I shall add more information to mysqld trace log to find out exactly
> what is going on if this happens for someone else.!
> 
> Regards,
> Monty

Hi Monty

Just tried it and --install doesn't work for me too.
I always get an error window 'mysql' with 'Failed to install Service'.
--standalone works as expected.

Win NT4.0 SP4 workstation, mysqlwin-3_22_20

Tschau
Christian