MySQL not starting at boot-Fedora Core 3

[Arthur Pemberton]

Mark Sargent wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> attempting another mysql install, on a 3rd machine. Extracted the 
> tar.gz file to /usr/local/mysql. Followed the install docs here,
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/installing-binary.html
>
> and successfully ran the MySql grant tables script,
>
> 6. If you haven't installed MySQL before, you must create the MySQL 
> grant tables:
>
> shell> scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
>
>
> I then followed here,
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/automatic-start.html
>
> to a T, and copied mysql.server to /etc/init.d, and just for good 
> measure, gave it permission to execute,
>
> chmod +x /etc/init.d/mysql
>
> I then rebooted(I know it's not really required, but did it anyway), 
> to see how things would go at boot, and saw a failed message for 
> mysqld_safe,
>
> Apr 16 21:20:01 localhost lsb_log_message: Can't execute 
> ./bin/mysqld_safe failed
>
> Can anyone explain why it wouldn't start..? Anything I should be 
> looking for..? I can start the server with ./mysqld_safe from within 
> the bin dir and I can connect as root or mysql. Cheers.
>
> /etc/init.d/mysql permissions
>
> [root at localhost init.d]# ls -lh mysql
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 6.2K Apr 16 21:11 mysql
>
> /var/log/mysqld.log doesn't show anything as I think it only logs 
> errors once running. /var/boot.log only shows the same error seen at 
> boot as does /var/log/boot.log.
>
> Mark Sargent.
>
What are the permissions on ./bin/mysqld_safe ?