Joseph Greenawalt wrote:
>
> Hello all, I hope someone can help. I have a fresh install of Red Hat
> 7.0, I installed mysql-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm and then
> mysql-server-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm. Supposedly the daemon is automatically
> starts, well it doesn't. I tried the mysql_install_db and it runs, but
> I don't think it makes the databases because when I try to start the
> daemon with safe_mysqld & it says it tries to open the databases in
> /var/lib/mysql, shouldn't there be a data directory or something? I don't
> know,
> but it can't find them because the script immediately ends. The listing of
> the
> /var/lib/mysql is localhost.localdomain.err mysql/ mysql.sock= test/ Any
> help
> would be appreciated, I have a school project deadline coming up with JDBC
> and my
> problem is with this database more than the code. I would prefer to use
> mysql, but if I can't
> get it running, I might have to use MSAccess :-( Thanks in advance,
> Joe
>
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If these are the RPMs on the CD, they are no good.
Go to redhat.com or mysql.com and get working RPMs.
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