>On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Ling Wang wrote:
> I have to login as root user to do mysql_install_db and safe_mysqld &.
> Otherwise I will get permission denied message.
You already made those files, and they're owned by root. You can't
overwrite them that way.
Just do a chown before you start the database.
> How come when I type service mysqld start, Linux says command not found? I
> could not find the command chkconfig either.
Both are not path of a user's path[1] - they're admin tools, and are for
the use of root. Root can also control which services start with "tksysv"
and "ntsysv".
[1] They're in /sbin, for the curious.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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