In the last episode (May 09), Paul Keyes said: > I tried adding mysql_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and > rebooted but sockstat -4 | grep mysql showed nothing > and mysql server wasn't running. > > Some information about my system: > > $uname -r > 5.3-RELEASE > > $pkg_info | grep mysql > mysql-client-5.0.3_1 Multithreaded SQL database(client) > mysql-server-5.0.3_1 Multithreaded SQL database(server)
Try building the mysql50-server and mysql50-client ports; they come with FreeBSD-style startup scripts. What you pasted looks like the generic one shipped with the source distribution, and it doesn't look like it got installed right: > if test -z "$basedir" > then > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ > else > bindir="$basedir/bin" > sbindir="$basedir/sbin" > fi The @xxx@ blocks should have been replaced with paths to /usr/local/something . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"