This is probably a silly question, but I'm a new administrator and could use
some help.
I'm running a Slackware Linux 2.2.16 and am having difficulty installing
MySQL 3.23.38. I have downloaded the following rpm files from www.mysql.com:
MySQL-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-devel-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-client-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm
MySQL-shared-3.23.38-1.i386.rpm
Then I used rpm2tgz to convert them to .tgz files, and finally ran
installpkg on each of them to do the install.
The problem comes when I try to start the MySQL server with safe_mysqld. My
machine is named 'patrick'. The command returns:
touch: /var/lib/mysql/patrick.err: No such file or directory
chown: mysql: invalid user
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
/usr/bin/safe_mysqld: /var/lib/mysql/patrick.err: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/safe_mysqld: /var/lib/mysql/patrick.err: No such file or directory
tee: /var/lib/mysql/patrick.err: No such file or directory
010606 11:30:08 mysqld ended
tee: /var/lib/mysql/patrick.err: No such file or directory
I have looked, and there doesn't seem to be a /var/lib/mysql directory.
Simply creating a blank /var/lib/mysql directory myself seems to generate
further errors.
Has anyone encountered this before?
Patrick
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