On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 14:18 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote: > chris hammond wrote: > > > Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to > > start it with > > /etc/init.d/mysqld start > > > > Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. > > > > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your help. Apparently mysqld does not exist on the system. > Not sure why this is. Has anyone else run into this issue? > > [root@helpdesk sbin]# locate mysqld > /usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.58/mysqld_error.txt > /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld_multi.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/safe_mysqld.1.gz > /usr/bin/mysqld_multi > /usr/bin/mysqldumpslow > /usr/bin/mysqldump > /usr/include/mysql/mysqld_error.h > > [root@helpdesk sbin]# /usr/bin/mysqld_multi > Couldn't find the mysqld binary! Tried: /usr/libexec/mysqld > Couldn't find the mysqladmin binary! Tried: /usr/bin/mysqladmin > Error with an option, see mysqld_multi --help for more info! > yum install mysql-server -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050904/c01f6173/attachment.bin