Having some other folks helping me out here with this MySQL problems that I am having.
I have found out that I am missing the my.cnf from the /etc directory and I am trying to create the file from scratch, this is what I have so far and also MySQL is installed from .tgz in this directory. /usr/local/MySQL/mysql-3.23.52-pc-linux-gnu-i686 Here is the what I have so far for my.cnf, please advise if this is right or not ******************************************************************** #missing this config. file for MySQL [mysql] datadir=/usr/local/MySQL/mysql-3.23.52-pc-linux-gnu-i686/bin socket=/tmp/mysql.sock [mysql.server] user=mysql basedir=/var/lib [safe_mysql] err-log=/var/log/mysql.log #I do not show this file in /var/log nor do I show a mysql.log in the MySQL directory pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid #I also do not show this under /var/run ***************************************************************** thanks again -Chris ===== ***************************************** GAIM ID: cmmiller1973 ***************************************** __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.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