Removed PostFix, Now MySql Problems!!!

[sapient]

Please help.

I decided to reinstall postfix to hopefully solve a problem i had with it.

i done an

apt-get remove postfix

then

apt-get install postfix

when it went to remove postfix it shutdown msyqld

and now Mysql isnt working!!! what have i done!???? what can i do>?

[sapient]

I cant even find mysqld! or run it... is everything lost?

[edit]
Well, I now know that everything is not lost. My Mysql folder is still there and I found all the tables and databases in there. But Mysqld is nowhere to be found and of course it is not running.

So everything on my server is just sitting still. Please tell me how to get mysqld back up and running (or installed) and how to restore the databases - if i need to.
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[falko]

Does /etc/init.d/mysql exist? If so, run

/etc/init.d/mysql start

to start MySQL.

If not, run

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient12-dev

to re-install MySQL.

[sapient]

etc/init.d/mysql is there, but when i:

/etc/init.d/mysql start

nothing happens.

[till]

Did you get any errors in the syslog or in the mysql log?

[sapient]

mysql logs are empty
and syslog doesnt seem to catch anything when I try to run or stop or restart mysql