RE: Starting Mysql service.. Problem

2006-07-06 Thread Conrad Williams
Try making the directory writable. Don't know why the permissions have been changed, but...    # chmod u+w /var/run/mysqld      dr-xr-xr-x   2 mysql root 4096 2006-07-04 07:30 . ^  this is not writable for the mysql user. 

RE: Postfix under Debian 3.1 not working

2006-07-04 Thread Conrad Williams
Just guessing, try command> hostname   was this working before hand? Or is this a new install?   what's in your /etc/hosts ,  /etc/hostname and do you have a  /etc/mailhostname  ?   The gethostbyname should be able to resolve your computer's hostname.   What about doing some nslookups. Do

debconf/config.dat corruption

2006-07-04 Thread Conrad Williams
While installing a few packages, I had a RAID disk failure, resulting in a RAID cache flush. This corrupted the install process, but it had downloaded the packages. Into recovery mode and did following; Logsave was installed (using aptitude, yep the system kept going OK) after the initial failur