I am an experienced database developer (Sybase on Solaris mostly) but new to MySQL on Linux (so please feel free to redirect me to a more suitable forum if that is appropriate).
Question 1: I have just downloaded and installed the RPM version of MySQL 4.0 on a RH7.1 system. In reading the documentation I understand that the installation should map to /usr/local/mysql/bin (amongst others) however my installation went straight into the /usr/bin directory. I also noticed some other differences. Eg. the command for starting the server is documented as safe_mysqld whereas I have mysqld_safe on my system. Is this possibly due to differences in the 4.0 release and, if so, where can I get an up to date document? Question 2: I installed MySQL as root but would like to run the server (at times) as a non-priveleged user. The documentation I have says that I can do this by changing ownership of the required files and directories so that they are owned by this user. Has anyone implemented any more elegant schemes such as creating a dbusers group and changing permissions to allow execution by members of this group (for example). Many thanks for your patience. Col Boyan --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
