[support] Drupal on a laptop

[Chris Jones]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:27:52AM EST, Victor Kane wrote:
> You don't say how you installed MySql, but this message would appear to
> indicate that MySql is not running.
> 
> On my Ubuntu laptop, from a terminal I did:
> 
> $ ps -ef | grep mysql
> mysql    25011     1  1 07:21 ?        00:00:05 /usr/sbin/mysqld
> 1000     28598 28579  0 07:26 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mysql
> 
> So, first off, is it running?

Odd. 

I apt-get installed package drupal6 on debian ‘lenny’ last night and it
fired up MySql without even asking my permission.

Ubuntu may have different policies, though.

I'd check the apt logs just in case.

cj