Mark Sargent wrote:
... but, my real query, now, is, why the configs/my.cnf were different,
Because there isn't any /etc/my.cnf created on your system by default; you are responsible for creating one if needed, using the examples in the ./support-files subdirectory.
Obviously the /etc/my.cnf on your system was detritus from the previous installation; it's not surprising it was out of sync with the new.
Hence my original suggestion to remove all traces of the old MySQL installation before starting fresh :-)
> along with the coding being wrong in the mysql_install_db
script, which I had to move to /usr/local/mysql from the scripts dir to get it to run without errors.
Extract from the INSTALL-BINARY file in the 4.1.11-standard dist:
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 FULL-PATH-TO-MYSQL-VERSION-OS mysql
shell> cd mysql
shell> scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
...Note that you are directed to run the script from the MySQL *base* install directory -- it sounds like you were trying to run it from ./scripts, which makes a big difference in the interpretation of the 'current working directory' :-)
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