plenty900@yahoo.com wrote in news:c59ebd27-0231-4e78-b4c2-d5db062796e8
@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> Hello,
>
> Under a newly installed copy of Slackware 12, I did a
> "chmod +x rc.mysqld" to ensure that mysqld is started
> during boot up. I then rebooted and tried to run
> mysqladmin to set the database's root password.
> I also tried the database initialization script.
> Unfortunately it seems that mysqld_safe refuses to run
> under Slackware. I even discovered that the rc.mysql script
> fails during startup.
>
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> I then tried uninstalling and then compiling MySQL from
> source and installing that, but the server continues
> to exit during boot-up and when I try to run it
> from the command line, and without any useful error message.
>
> Thanks.
>

Is there any interesting information in the error log file?