Well I figured out that I cant connect to the mysql.sock file because the
server isnt actually running.
I chmoded the rc.mysqld file in /etc/rc.d to make it executable.
It says to do that if you want mysql to start at bootup.
Well it does'nt and when I try to run it manually this is the error I get.


bash-2.05b# ./rc.mysqld start
bash-2.05b# /usr/bin/my_print_defaults: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3
.2' not found (required by /usr/bin/my_print_defaults)
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
031115 14:03:35 mysqld ended


please help...
Thanks,
blizeach

blizeach over and out!
KCHHH!!!!

To install MySQL 4 see other topic posted by Blizeach http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5773

firstly ensure rc.mysqld IS exec (I used chmod 755 rc.mysqld) then to ensure I did
ls -la | grep mysql

To get MySQL running automatically on slackware 9 you need to add the mysqld to edit
(Using VIle/EMACS or something similar) /etc/rc.d/rc.M


Add the following lines to your script
#Start MySQL 4 - Correct at date here
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld ]; then
         echo "Starting MySQL 4"
         . /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start
fi
#All done

I placed it at the end, so MySQL will only start in multiuser mode, if u want it to start regardless you need to either add the above to every init level (Except 0) or add it to rc.local.

HTH

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David Thorne, Student
UK