After I went through the following steps successfully, (The previous problem I had regarding inability to untar files was solved by downloading stuff on that computer where it was untarred. Before that I was trying to untar stuff downloaded on to a samba share !!!) shell> groupadd mysql shell> useradd -g mysql mysql shell> gunzip < mysql-VERSION.tar.gz | tar -xvf - shell> cd mysql-VERSION shell> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql shell> make shell> make install shell> scripts/mysql_install_db shell> chown -R root /usr/local/mysql shell> chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var shell> chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql shell> cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf for shell> /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql & I get, [1] 15387 [root@calamity /root]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var 020314 09:47:12 mysqld ended
[1]+ Done /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld then when I try to, ./mysqladmin -u root password 'passwd' I get, ./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists! Please advise. I have many more things to do including setting up php and apache. Would also appreciate links to those as well. Also how can I specify RPMs to install to a particular directory like /usr/local/mysql. There was an option, rpm --dbpath <path>. So could I do a, rpm -Uvh --dbpath </usr/local/mysql> rpm then ?????????????????????????????????? Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
