Multiple MySQL Instances

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.0K blaze of typing glory, Wil McGilvery wrote:
> Oops - Sorry for the confusion regarding the subject heading
> 
> I am trying to install a second instance of MYSQL on the same
> server. The mysql documentation indicates that if you specify a new
> tcp port, Unix socket and data directory, you should be able to star
> the second instance of MYSQL. I have been trying to accomplish this by
> running the command.
> 
> bin/./mysqld_safe --socket=/tmp/mysqld-new.sock --port=3307 --datadir=/var/mysql4/mysql-standard-4.0.18-pc-linux-i686/data/ --pid-file=mysql4.pid 
> 
> I keep getting msqld already started.
> 
> Is there a mysql how to for dummies or can someone indicate where I
> am going wrong?

Perhaps if you specified a different pid file, too?

Kurt
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