Today, I bought a Host1Plus VPS and tried to install MySQL on it. Initially, I used the command yum -y install mysqld, but after the installation finished, I was left speechless:
I checked if there was any service name starting with “my” in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ by running ls /etc/rc.d/init.d/my*
When using service mysql restart/stop/start , the following error appeared: mysql: unrecognized service
After searching online, I realized the mysql-server service was simply not installed, so I reinstalled it:
yum -y install mysql-server
The restart was successful after that:
service mysqld restart
