Re: MySQL Error (subject changed)

[Nigel Houghton <nigel () sourcefire com>]

On  0, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:
> --On December 19, 2006 6:56:26 PM -0500 Nigel Houghton 
> <nigel () sourcefire com> wrote:
>
> > On  0, FRANCIS PROVENCHER <francis.provencher () msp gouv qc ca> wrote:
> > > Hi all, im sorry to disturb you again.
> > >
> > > I have a problem when i reboot a freebsd box with snort.
> > > The problem is, that the snort instance go up before Mysql server.
> > > I have try to sleep the snort process for 15 seconde to let's Mysql go
> > > up before without success... (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/snort -->  sleep 15)
> > >
> > > But i have this error, on /var/log/message
> > > : FATAL ERROR: database: mysql_error: Can't connect to local MySQL
> > > server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
> > >
> > > Some on have an idea how to let's snort stand for Mysql instance ?
> >
> > Yes. Start the mysqld daemon first. Take a look in the FreeBSD
> > documentation on how to do that.
> mysql *should* have installed (if you installed it from ports) with a 
> startup script named 111.mysqld.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, which *should* 
> make it startup first.  If you compiled from source, your startup script 
> simply needs to be named mysqld.sh so that it starts before snort.sh. 
> Startup scripts are processed numerically and then alphabetically.

Take a look at rcorder, rc.subr and rc.

Also, might be worth making sure that MySQL is actually running and
using the socket /tmp/mysql.sock first though.

--
Nigel Houghton
Office Linebacker
SF VRT

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