On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:18:30PM +0800, Hammer wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I'm running RedHat Linux, I just downloaded the ~.tar.gz mysql file in my > /usr/local directory and uncompressed it. > > Now I can get the target directory but I don't know how to start the server. > > I tried: > ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=root & > but it doesn't work for me. > > Any help is warmly welcome.
Could you first read the README file(s) that were in the .tar.gz file? You'll find the process explained there pretty well. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.47-max: up 54 days, processed 1,515,042,039 queries (319/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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