alright gentlemen, im super new at this deal. i installed mysql with the php lib a couple of weeks ago, and the first day it worked fine. but now, for some reason everytime i reboot my computer i have to manually restart apache to be able to run the testing server.

sudo apachectl graceful

then it tells me [warn] module mod_php4.c has already started...

then when i run my phpadmin i get a:

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Error

MySQL said:
#2002 - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Private/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

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do i always have to start up apache every time i boot in order to be able and start running php?

maybe im not wording myself very well...
silly questions of a begginer. all help is very thanked for.

Your mysql is not running.

well, mySQL runs, but i have to start the db server everytime i reboot
cd /local/mysql/ ;
sudo echo
sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe &

then it starts...but i have to do it everytime i restart. (im on mac)

Copy mysql.server file from /path/where/is/mysql/support-scripts/ to /etc/init.d/
Then create symlink from rc3.d or rc5.d on /etc/init.d/mysql.server
I don't know mac structure but on linux is as above.

It is not as above for BSD. BSD does not use init.d nor does Mac OS X (at least not Jaguar). BSD uses rc. I could get into starting MySQL on *BSD, but Mac OS X uses a different startup architecture. You should create a directory /Library/StartupItems/MySQL/. Then you need to create two files in that directory. One is the actual startup script. The other is a property list file. I won't get into the details here, but you can follow this link to a description of the solution http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...31212142956308 .

Oooops sorry, my fault. There is no system V init implemented on BSD.