hello edna and brian,
your life savers! thank you for getting back to me. i've done the chown and chmod which went well! then i typed: mysql_install_db this then said 'installing all prepared tables' and a message saying: /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete after that the default kind of welcome screen (that i've seen before when i installed mysql on a win2000 pc) came up reminding me to set root passwords ect. i tried this and no joy... the default stuff seems to have gone in and when the machine boots up it does say 'starting xsf' and then goes on about starting the mysql daemon using /var/lib/mysql ect ect.... i also tried the: service mysqld start and get a message saying: mysqld: unrecognised service have i missed something again? thank you for any help you can chuck my way! many thanks, jake p.s. has anyone ever found a complete tutorial on the web for installing redhat, php and mysql? i've searched and found stuff that seems to bear no relation to what i'm trying to do! actually, once i get this up and running, i'm seriously thinking of setting up a site that has this kind of thing on it - i've been using http://www.entropy.ch to help me with php and mysql on mac osX and it's first class! i cant believe theres not one for redhat.... on 26/2/02 18:08, Edna Walton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Well, you shouldn't have to do anything (much). RedHat has set it all up > for you, albeit not in any place you would expect it if you read the > manual. RH creates a user mysql and sets up the tables. They are in the > directory /var/lib/mysql. > > However, for some reason RH has left root as the owner of all this, so you > have to change it: > > chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql > > and also give mysql permission to write to it. Not being very security > conscious on my standalone machine, I just did > > chmod -R 755 /var/lib/mysql > > but you may wish to be more stringent. > > To start the daemon under RH, the command is > > service mysqld start > > (note the d) rather than safe_mysqld or whatever. > > Hope this helps. > > Edna > > > At 16:50 26/02/02 +0000, you wrote: >> hello! >> >> i'm rapidly loosing the hair i have left.... >> >> i've managed to get our old clockwork pc running redhat 7.1 and php4. apache >> is a rockin and now i've just installed the mysql RPM... >> >> this is where everything's come to a grinding halt... >> >> everything's gone in and mysql seems to be up and running in the background >> - thing is i've just got to the 'what to do to set up mysql' - at this point >> in the manual it seems to forget that you've used a PRM and uses a load of >> stuff that doesn't seem to be in my machine! >> >> it's this bit 'See section 2.4 Post-installation Setup and Testing.' where >> it all goes wrong - none of the directories seem to be there! >> >> in your new server wisdom dus you have any advice?? driving me bonkers... >> >> cheers dude, >> >> jake --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
