On 30/07/13 21:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:Is the MySQL server running? ps aux | grep mysql ---> ethan@meow:~$ ps aux | grep mysql ethan 3043 0.0 0.0 3300 772 pts/0 S+ 13:12 0:00 grep mysql<--ps aux does show all running processes ;). 3043 is the process identifier. If you would run kill -9 3043 you could see what happens if it wouldn't run. It didn't need CPU or memory for work at the moment you run ps aux. Run top while mysql is working.
Process 3043 in this case is the grep command from ps aux | grep mysql. It looks like mysql is not running.Next step is to look in /var/log/mysql.log for error messages indicating why it didn't start.
-- Dom =============== Thanks to all - Now that we have established that mysql is not running, how to I restart it? TIA Ethan