MySQL on Ubuntu Woes

[omegahalo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Chris O'Connell)]

Sorry guys, I figured it out!  Had to add the script to rc2.d

Thanks!

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Chris O'Connell <omegahalo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm stumped... I've spent 3 days working on this and just can't seem to
> find a solution :(
>
>
> I can't get the mysqld command to start automatically.  When I try to run
> mysqld I get an error about the following missing file:
> /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
>
> So, I create the /var/run/mysqld directory (which is not present on boot)
> and set the permissions and then I can start mysqld.  The problem is that
> when I reboot the /var/run/mysqld directory is missing.  So I wrote the
> following script:
>
> root at SJ-MA-LX-Nagios:~# cat /etc/init.d/mysqld
> sudo mkdir /var/run/mysqld
> sudo chmod 777 /var/run/mysqld
> sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld &
>
> when I manually evoke the script all works without a problem.  Without the
> script things don't work too well.
>
> How can I get the script to run at boot?  I've created a symbolic link in
> rc3-rc5.d.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> chris
>