If I recall correctly, mysqld doesn't behave properly when you start it,
and keeps the terminal. Add a & to that to force it to background.

As for your non boot problem, whip out your rescue disk and boot from it.

You *DO* have a rescue disk, don't you? =)

- billn

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Joel W. Leibow wrote:

> I recently installed MySQL and added the line below to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> file so that it starts on each reboot.
>
> /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld
>
> Each time I attempt to reboot my system the boot up sequence freezes when it
> hits that line.  Since my machine wont even boot I am not certain on how to
> go about fixing the problem.  Could someone please help me out with
> resolving the problem and let me know how to go about fixing this?  I would
> appreciate it very much.
>
> Joel Leibow
> Internet Systems Developer
> Pro-Web Solutions
>
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