On Thursday 10 March 2005 08:38 am, Tim Wilson wrote: > I'm having trouble getting a couple of the server's daemons running though. > Postgres came up fine so I did a dump of all the current databases. (That's > just to prevent losing the transactions from yesterday that occurred after > the nightly backup.) But we also have some MySQL DBs on the system. I'd > like to do the same, but I can't get MySQL started. It fails silently and > simply says to check the syslog. There's no help in there that I can see. [mysqld] log = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log ??? All sort of info should be there on why mysql failed to start. /usr/sbin/mysqld, Version: 4.0.23_Debian-10-log, started with: Tcp port: 3306 Unix socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock Time Id Command Argument <snip> -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288