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Asked: 2026-05-11T06:39:07+00:00

I’ve bee tearing my hair out trying to get MySQL 5 running on CentOS

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I’ve bee tearing my hair out trying to get MySQL 5 running on CentOS 5 but I’ve had hardly any luck. If I leave everything as default, and launch the initial install it works a charm, but if I tell the my.cnf to use a different drive to store the data, I continuously get the ‘Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.’ error.

My.cnf is as follows:

[mysqld] datadir=/database/mysql socket=/database/mysql/mysql.sock user=mysql old_passwords=1 log-error=/database/log/mysqld.log long_query_time  = 10 log_slow_queries = /database/log/mysql-slow.log query-cache-type = 1 query-cache-size = 8M innodb_file_per_table skip-bdb set-variable = local-infile=0  [mysqld_safe] pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

The folders all have the right privileges and the mysqld.log doesn’t have any error messages in there, according to it, MySQL launced successfuly. Oh, and /database is a mounted drive, but even if I trial it on a local directory, I get the same error.

Any ideas what could be going wrong? i’ve seriously waisted more than 5 hours on this now 🙁

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  1. Shouldn’t the datadir be set to the other drive and everything else (socket) point to the standard install locations?

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