What is the hostname of the machine? I'm no expert, but the error msg leads me to believe that MySQL can resolve your machine's hostname to an ip address.
-----Original Message----- <snip> Ok so I tried the /etc/init.d/mysqld start and it almost worked it returned this error: Initializing MySQL database: Sorry, the host 'dhcp-482-2416' could not be looked up. Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with the --force option <snip>
