On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 14:18 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote:

chris hammond wrote:

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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