Trouble starting MySQL [SOLVED?]

[Colin J. Raven]

On Jan 12 at 11:17, Colin J. Raven launched this into the bitstream:

> On Jan 12 at 09:35, Walker, Michael suggested:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
> OK, I added the necessary stuff to /etc/rc.conf and attempted to start
> mysql via the mysql-server.sh script. Nothing doing.
>
> I rebooted the box, checked to see if mysql was running. It wasn't.
>
> I attempted once more to start it from the script - Nothing.
>
> OK, I'm back to where I started.

BUT
I pulled up webmin | Servers | MySQL Server  adjusted paths to where 
stuff lives, hit "Start MySQL Server" and seemingly MySQL is now running.
To wit:

root     1329  0.0  0.1  1652 1208  ??  I    11:26AM   0:00.01 /bin/sh 
/usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql
mysql    1347  0.0  2.5 55852 25832  ??  S    11:26AM   0:00.14 
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local --datadir=/var/
colin    1359  0.0  0.1  1476  896  p2  S+   11:26AM   0:00.00 grep 
mysql

Good, but I'm just puzzled why/how this worked from webmin. It doesn't 
make sense. One thing, it started mysql as can be seen above from 
/usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe, which sure 'aint the script way.

Then again, the "script way" from CLI didn't work.

<sigh>

-Colin