J. Flechtner asked
> ... there are many mentions of a > /usr/local/mysql/bin directory. Since everything was installed via RPM > this directory does not exist. My question is: Where should mysql data > files go when no bin directory exists? bin is for program kind of files, not data kind of files. > I have manually created a > /usr/local/mysql/bin but this does not seem to work No, it wouldn't work. Did you happen to notice what files and directories were created? Is there by any chance a /var/lib/mysql or /usr/local/mysql/data? One of those might be your data directory. (I'm probably misreading about /var/lib/mysql, however.) And you might have your executable files in something like /usr/local/bin/mysql instead of the directory you mentioned above. I've never done MySQL on Linux, but the manual suggests these and others in the section on installing: http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/n/Installing_binary.html http://www.mysql.com/doc/L/i/Linux-RPM.html Joel Rees Alps Giken Kansai Systems Develoment Suita, Osaka --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
