I don't know whether slackware has the RPM software but if it does, use it.
You won't have these problems then. Otherwise I can only suggest you try
one of the other binaries instead.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:22
Subject: Rookie admin needs install help
> 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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