mysql won't start on boot

[Markus Hoenicka]

Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken at gmail.com> was heard to say:

> 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.
>

That's interesting. Why on earth would the mysql package use exactly this way to
start up the server (see my previous post) if it is all wrong?

regards,
Markus

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