Rance, Saturday, March 23, 2002, 1:27:37 AM, you wrote: RH> Egor:
RH> Yes, im sure that the host.xxx tables are in the directory I specified to RH> the mysql_install_db script. RH> One thing to note.. RH> This is a software package for my distro... I did not compile from source so RH> I dont know what options were used in the compile process. RH> It may be that the server is unable to look in the dir where the files RH> are... if this is the case then this would explain why the server cant find RH> the host.xxx databases. RH> I have tried to run safe_mysqld --datadir=/path/to/data RH> but that doesnt help RH> Do you think I should just uninstall the package, and download the sources RH> and start over? RH> Im at the end of my rope with this, Its just dumb to me that the server cant RH> find something that I can find, even after I tell it where to look. RH> There must be something more wrong that just a simple chown command, or file RH> permissions or something like that. Rance, it's best to uninstall your MySQL server and install from scratch the binary package from http://www.mysql.com. RH> Thoughts? -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.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
