here is what I get in another console when I do "service mysqld start"
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060125 23:06:06 mysqld started
Cannot initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set.
If you do not want to use transactional InnoDB tables, add a line
skip-innodb
to the [mysqld] section of init parameters in your my.cnf
or my.ini. If you want to use InnoDB tables, add to the [mysqld]
section, for example,
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
But to get good performance you should adjust for your hardware
the InnoDB startup options listed in section 2 at
http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html
060125 23:06:06 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Incorrect information in file: './mysql/host.frm'
060125 23:06:06 mysqld ended