so how to fix the error ?
How did file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
become a text file ?
chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lezz Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "christopher sagayam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: weird error that I have not encountered in 2 years
> I'm not a mysql person, but I've seen similar stuff.
> I think that for some reason Unix thinks that the file
> you're trying to execute is not an executable, so it
> is trying to run it as a shell script. Try this first:
> file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
> and when it tells you that it is a text file, use an editor
> to look at the contents of the file. You'll almost certainly
> find that it contains SQL commands instead of being
> the executable image that it should be.
>
> HTH
> Lezz Giles
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "christopher sagayam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 3:01 PM
> Subject: weird error that I have not encountered in 2 years
>
>
> > can anyone please tell me what is happening here ?
> >
> >
> > [root@ns dump]# /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
> > /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: DROP: command not found
> > /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> > /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: line 12: `CREATE
> > TABLE badwordstable ('
> > [root@ns dump]#
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > chris
> >
> >
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