Panic over, I just had to restart mysqld manually for some reason...<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Marc Sherman <<a href="mailto:msherman@projectile.ca">msherman@projectile.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Ben Coates wrote:<br>> Right - I deleted the contents of /var/log - but now i'm getting "unable to<br>> connect to database" errors.<br>><br>> Anyone know whats going wrong?<br>
<br></div>Did you delete the entire contents of /var/log, including all subdirs?<br>Just a guess, but mysql may not be able to launch properly if it's<br>trying to write logs to a dir that no longer exists.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
- Marc<br></font>
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