On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:32:18 -0700, plenty900 wrote:

> 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.

Did you install the initial databases?

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db