mysql won't start on boot

[Joshua Lokken]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:05:13 -0800, Vonleigh Simmons
<nospam at illusionart.com> wrote:
> > What happens if you run "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start"
>
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start
> Starting mysql.
> 
>        Yet mysql never started up, here is the error log:
> ---
> 041208 14:07:26  mysqld started
> 041208 14:07:26 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile
> '/usr/local/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys'
> 041208 14:07:26 [ERROR] Aborting
> 
> 041208 14:07:26  mysqld ended
> ---

The documentation specifies that the above is not the way to
start mysql.
 

> 
>        If I start it up with mysql_safe using what I think the script is
> using as startup:
> 
> # /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir=/var/db/mysql
> --pid-file=/var/db/mysql/alpargata.net.pid &
> 
>        Then it starts up just fine:
> ---
> 041208 14:07:32  mysqld started
> 041208 14:07:32  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43912
> /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections.
> Version: '4.1.7'  socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock'  port: 3306  FreeBSD port:
> mysql-server-4.1.7
> ---

And you found the correct way.  However, I do not know why it is
not starting at boot time.

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate