mike cullerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> on 8/6/01 10:13 PM, Trond Eivind Glomsrød at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > "Ling Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I have a fresh installed Linux 7.1 from Redhat. The mysal 3.23.36 was
> >> installed together with the Redhat Linux. I can not start the mysql
> >> server by executing /usr/bin/safe_mysqld &.
> >
> > You're not supposed to. To start mysql, as any service, do
>
> <snip>
>
> > What you've done (and too many others, where do they get this idea?)
>
> um, perhaps from the INSTALL-SOURCE notes that come with the mysql
> distribution
But you didn't install from source. It comes with a Linux
distribution, and is started as other services there (same way as the
LSB standard specifies).
> shell> bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
If that is done, and mysql_install_db is run as root, I don't see that
working either.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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