Trouble starting MySQL

[Colin J. Raven]

On Jan 12 at 09:35, Walker, Michael launched this into the bitstream:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Colin J. Raven
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Trouble starting MySQL
>
>
> Greetings all,
> I installed MySQL from ports (mysql-4.1.7)
> then tried to start it. Nothing doing - wo way.
>
> Starting it from /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh nothing happens. No
> error message is emitted, but no running instance of mysql either.
>
> <snip>
>
> Read /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh you now have to start mysqld from
> your rc.conf file.
>
> HTH
Yes it *did* help, but are you saying therefore that to start mysql 
righeously you have to reboot the box? I don't know any other way to 
make the OS re-read rc.conf.
Many thenks for the light-speed response!!!

-Colin