Hi:
I've been running 3.23 for years, but several users are clamoring for new
versions, as many php apps are using newer features, so I downloaded the
source for 5.0.51b to run on a different TCP port.
I found a reference on a couple of ways to do this here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/multiple-unix-servers.html
It looked pretty straightforward to me. Since I prefer to do as much
non-standard stuff at runtime as possible, rather than compile it in, the
only configure option I changed was --with-prefix=/usr/local/mysql50 (3.23
is installed in /usr/local from FreeBSD Ports).
The rest, from what I could gather from the page above could be done
thusly:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/mysql50/bin/mysqld_safe --socket=/tmp/mysql50.sock \
--port=(new port) --basedir=/usr/local/mysql50 --datadir=/var/db/mysql50 &
I did the datadir as well, because I had read that sometimes accessing
existing 3.23 databases using 5.0 can cause problems, so I thought I'd
start fresh. I don't run a my.cnf as yet.
However, the server still seems hopelessly confused. If I telnet to port
3306, I get the old version as I should and when I telnet to the new port
I get the new version as I should, but if I do a:
mysqladmin -P (new port) variables
I get the old variables. Similarly, if I install phpMyAdmin and specify
the new port and socket, it still sees the old databases and version of
MySQL. Start and stop scripts also seem confused. What did I miss?
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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