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Chris, thanks for the tips. Yes, WestHost is a little peculiar in what it chooses to make available to shell customers — there’s no tcsh, either.

“/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart” was what killed my MySQL and “/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start” is a no-op. Sigh. I’ve got a query in to WestHost support.

And thanks for the warning about the diagnostics. Makes sense. I’ll disable them for now.