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? Here is what happens when I run it: [root@localhost mysql]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 010307 19:49:49 mysqld ended I don't know,but it can't find them because the script immediately ends. The listing of the /var/lib/mysql is: [root@localhost mysql]# ls -l total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql root 1192 Mar 7 19:43 localhost.localdomain.er r drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 22:19 mysql srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 Mar 7 19:43 mysql.sock drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 22:19 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 :-( The two suggestions I got were 1: to check the permissions on /var/lib/mysql, it was wrong and I have it now as: [root@localhost lib]# ls -l total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 games -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 315 Mar 7 04:02 logrotate.status drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 2000 misc drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Mar 7 19:43 mysql drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 5 17:01 nfs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 1996 rpm drwxr-x--- 2 root slocate 4096 Mar 7 04:02 slocate I noticed the mysql directory has mysql group and owner and I am trying to run this as root could this be the problem, because I checked and root is not a member of the mysql group, if so how do I change this "properly". The other suggestion was to get the rpms from redhat and/or mysql, I did use the rpms off of the CD. Thanks in advance, Joe
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