On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, National Theater of Greece wrote: > Hi. > I have installed SuSE Linux 8.0 Proffessional and the MySQL that came with > it. If anyone of you has done the same he must have realized that many of > the files are quite different than the files of MySQL that came with the > standard installation described in the maual. > My problem is that I have to change the character set to greek because all > the 'select' commands including 'order by' do not display the elements in > the correct order. The MySQL manual doesn't help me because the SuSE MySQL > deamon starts with 'rcmysql start' (instead 'mysql') and the > '--default-character-set=greek' parameter isn't doing anything... > Has anyone else faced the same problem (in any other language than english)? > I'm quite new in Linux and I may have done some other mistakes when > installing so I would be very greatfull to anyone who could help me... > > Achilles
Achilles, in case you have to recompile: SuSE give the arguments they used for ./configure in /usr/share/doc/packages/mysql/README.SuSE Recompiling from source works like a charm as long as you are using the same directory structure. Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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