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Old 25th December 2008
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Which version of MySQL are you using? FreeBSD 4 is no longer supported, so if you install a new version this probably won't work.
When checking out the ports tree with cvsup, use the RELEASE_4_EOL tag.

You can also try starting mysqld from the command-line, i.e.:
# mysqld_safe --user=mysql
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