dear sir good wishes. i am using enterprise redhat linux 3. mine rpm version of mysql is -3.23.58-1 and it was installed by the time of linux installation. when i use if the rpm is installed or not by using the comman rpm -qa | grep mysql it shows mysql-3.23.58-1 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-6 mysql-devel-3.23.58-1 now i am sure that mysql is installed. but when i run whereis mysql result is : /usr/lib/mysql usr/bin/mysql /usr/include/mysql /usr/share/mysql /usr/share/mysql/man/mnn1/mysql.1.gz
my .cnf file is under /etc and its contents are look like this [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib [safe_mysqld] err-log=/var/log/mysql.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid when i run: service mysqld start it shows unrecongnise service how can i run my sql in my machine? if you describe step by step procedure to run mysql i will be greatful. thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]