I just installed XAMPP on Snow Leopard, my disk is formatted in case sensitive so I was having trouble starting MySQL, after a bit of debugging I found that the symbolic link was being wrongly created:
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xamppfiles ferro$ sudo ./xampp startmysql
Password:
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
xamppfiles ferro$ ./xampp: line 150: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles//bin/mysql.server: No such file or directory
Nuno-Ferros-Mac-Pro:xamppfiles ferro$ ls -l /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles//bin/mysql.server
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ferro admin 55 Aug 16 13:35 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles//bin/mysql.server -> /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server
xamppfiles ferro$ sudo /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server
sudo: /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server: command not found
xamppfiles ferro$ sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server
Usage: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status} [ MySQL server options ]
So I fixed the symbolic link:
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xamppfiles ferro$ sudo rm /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql.server
xamppfiles ferro$ sudo ln -s /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/mysql/mysql.server /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql.server
xamppfiles ferro$ sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql.server
Usage: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql.server {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status} [ MySQL server options ]