problem with master slave

hello there,
great tutorial on the mysql replication master slave thing.

i got almost all the way through it and hit an error at the SLAVE START;
part.

the terminal spit this out.

Code:

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

any idea what i should look at ?

thanks

 

Did you take a look at this tutorial? http://www.howtoforge.com/mysql_database_replication

 

yes, this is the one i had the problem with, i have since found the problem though.
i run mysql on startup with /etc/init.d/mysql start.
so the lines in the my.cnf file that the tutorial listed needed to be under the
[mysqld] portion of the file.
when i did that, it worked.
thanks for your help