Before I go to far, let me tell you folks this:

OS: Slackware 11
Mysql: Was installed, but removed with removepkg mysql

I then went a head and built mysql from src with the options I required on my server, all went well till I go to actually configure the server and start it for the first time.

I copied the included server.mysql to /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld and gave it +x, I then went to start the server for the first time

# /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start
Starting MySQL/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld: line 159: kill: (25568) - No such process
ERROR!
root@darkstar:~#

This is no good :/ So I do some general search on google and I come up with a Mysql BUG report -> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=29727 <-

But this is for a beta version of Mysql5 and deals with SELinux ...

So this has left me with two probleme

1) I'm using the latest-stable
2) I don't have SELinux configured or enabled on my server.

So I need some help here, anything is appreciated .



and I got the following error

Before starting the server for the 1st time you should runto create the initial mysql db. You must also give the correct permissions to the db directory. Take a look at mysql logs to see if you find any hint why it's not working.

Regards

these steps were already done prier to my posting. The deamon still fails to start :/

You should post your question on this forum as well since it is a MySQL specific question.

http://forums.mysql.com/

Have checked the source for for errors? Try obtaining a source file from another server and compiling it as the original source file you compiled maybe damaged.

I am able to start the binary by hand ... but that's not the point, I should be able to use the provided rc script to stop/stop/manage the deamon .....