Mysql replication

[lockon]

Building a couple of mysql 5.0.77 servers for replication testing and eventual deployment. This is a very new concept for me and I have a couple of questions.

1) I am looking for any tutorials available if you know of anything good that will get me up and runnig fairly quick that would be awesome.
2) I am playing around trying to set up the master:slave and I get utter failure when I start the slave:

I have run the CAHNGE MASTER TO command and this does not work, I have edited the my.conf as follows for the slave and master:
master:

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql

old_passwords=1

[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
server-id=1
log-bin=test-bin
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
sync_binlog=1

mysqlmaster> SHOW MASTER STATUS;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

slave:

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
old_passwords=1
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
server-id=2
log-bin=test-bin
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
sync_binlog=1

mysqlslave> start slave;
ERROR 1200 (HY000): The server is not configured as slave; fix in config file or with CHANGE MASTER TO

any ideas on why this is failing. all the forums and other web docs point to the server-id not being unique on each server but as you can see that isn't the case here.

[HROAdmin26]

Google: mysql replication howto

Doesn't get any easier than this.

[lockon]

That is a good tutorial, and the one I followed to originally setup the replication, problem being it wors the exact same the second time I watch it and follow it. I still get the following in the master when I run show master status:

mysql> show master status;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

I assume that there is a setting somewhere that is being missed but I can't find anything useful on the interwebs. Has anyone encountered this before and if so how did you resolve?

[HROAdmin26]

General troubleshooting: review the log for messages/errors. If you are not sure where the log is, you can Google for mysql replication troubleshooting.

[lockon]

Found the problem, had to swap the position on a couple of lines in the my.cnf.

Thanks for the help with this, now on to clustering and HA

[lockon]

Actually I do have another question, though I may get the answer upon my further reading.

If I am to set up replication on a database that is already created and has data in it, will the slave be brought up to date with the existing info upon initialization of the replication or will I need to do a dump of the master db and put that on the slave prior to starting replication ( i.e. have identical data sets prior to beginning)?

Thanks