Thank You.. Monty
Yeah! I can write shell scripts and depending on
style usually interpet those written by others..
So, I will set about changing the script and email you
my results..
Thank You for taking the time to look at my problem.
Bob T
Michael Widenius wrote:
> Hi!
>
> >>>>> "R" == R Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> R> R Talbot wrote:
> R> R Talbot wrote:
> R> Still having compile problems and GNU binary
> R> produces the following info
>
> <cut>
>
> R> bin/mysqld --help
>
> R> basedir: /usr/local/mysql/
> R> datadir: /usr/local/mysql/var/
> R> tmpdir: /tmp/
>
> <cut>
>
> As you get any output from mysqld, it means that there is a good
> change to get mysqld to work.
>
> The question now is why mysql_install_db doesn't work.
> To be able to help you with this over email is however not trivial.
>
> The error you got was:
>
> > R> I changed the dir name to /usr/local/mysql.
> > R> I ran /usr/local/mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db
> > R> and got this error every time......
> >
> > R> faults: command not found
> > R> Didn't find ./bin/mysqld
>
> Please examine the mysql_install_script to find out what is wrong!
> If you don't know how shell scripts works, please ask someone that
> you know that can help you with this. To fix this should be just a
> couple of minutes of work!
>
> In general, the following should always work:
>
> cd /usr/local/mysql
> ./scripts/mysql_install_db
>
> Based on your emails, I can't however say why this doesn't work for
> you.
>
> You could try with:
>
> cd /usr/local/mysql
> ./scripts/mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr/local/mysql
>
> If this doesn't work either, then you need to take a close look at the
> mysql_install_db script to find out what is wrong with your setup.
>
> Regards,
> Monty
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