The biggest help is from INSTALL-SOURCE in the source tarball.
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The basic commands you must execute to install and use a *MySQL* binary
distribution are:
shell> groupadd mysql
shell> useradd -g mysql mysql
shell> cd /usr/local
shell> gunzip < /path/to/mysql-VERSION-OS.tar.gz | tar xvf -
shell> ln -s mysql-VERSION-OS mysql
shell> cd mysql
shell> scripts/mysql_install_db
shell> chown -R root /usr/local/mysql
shell> chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
shell> chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
shell> chown -R root /usr/local/mysql/bin/
shell> bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
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Ping Lu
Cable & Wireless Global
Network Tools and Analysis Group, USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Strycker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:20 PM
> To: MySQL
> Subject: Mysqld running as root.
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a newbe to Linux and MySQL, but I'm finding it very interesting.
>
> I'll cut right to the chase - I've followed the directions in
> the manual for the binary install on Linux. but every time I
> start up the mysql daemon and do a pstree -laup, it's running as root.
>
> This is on a development / play machine so it's not that big
> a deal, but my system admin says that I have to run it as user=mysql.
>
> I've tried changing the mysql.server script, the my.cnf file,
> etc. I cant figure it out - how to make it start up and run
> as user=mysql!?!
>
> Anywho - any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean.
>
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