Tag: can’t start mysql server
MYSQL install or startup error my_print_defaults command not found mysqld_safe
by Admin on Nov.15, 2010, under Linux Unix Stuff
In case it helps anyone out, if your having problems with install or startup of your mysql server and get errors indicating it can’t write to /usr/local/mysql/data or that it can’t find my_print_defaults or “mysqld_safe The file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld
does not exist or is not executable” it could be a very simple solution of just adding the mysql bin directory path to your environment PATH variable…on linux of course this is a simple “export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin”
and of course change that to your own actual path to the mysql bin directory….
After adding the bin dir path to your $PATH environment variable mysql server mysqld_safe should startup without any problems….