How did you install Mysql? since it looks like mysqld is not in your
path something is not right....
do you have mysql in your path?
# which mysql
or try to find mysqld with
# find / -name mysqld
and the two ls commands from Craig would be nice too...
maybe you have more than one mysql on this server
Craig:
The mysqld_safe script is just a nanny/startup script that starts the
mysqld (Mysql server) and make sure that this process is running. If
mysqld dies or is killed mysqld_safe will restart that process. By
using the mysqld executable directly you get more output to the screen
that should be helpf
Adolf:
After thinking about this more do you have SELinux running? I have
seen that to be an issue in the past where the mysqld process is
denied access to its .sock file.