basic 4.0.13 setup on RH9.0

[Kevin H. Phillips]

I had MySQL 3.23.56 on my RedHat machine but developed some problems 
(that were probably my own fault) so  I decided to upgrade to 4.0.   I 
downloaded the source rpm and rebuilt it on my system (running a fully 
updated RedHat 9.0).  I removed the old mysql by doing rpm -e on the 
components; then I installed 4.0.13-2 by doing rpm -ivh on the 
binaries.  I have copied the my-large.cnf.sh (I think that was it) from 
the support-files folder to /etc/my.cnf.   Now when I try to set the 
root password, or other things, I get this message:

Unknown suffix '@' used for variable 'port' (value '@MYSQL_TCP_PORT@')
mysqladmin: Error while setting value '@MYSQL_TCP_PORT@' to 'port'
I noticed that several of the options apparently need to have values 
filled in.  Where can I find some good documentation on how to set up 
the new version?  Is the O'Reilly book a good resource?  I had been 
using one of the Red Hat Linux "Bible" books and also "MySQL Bible" by 
Steve Suehring.  Is there something more current that I could get?

You may e-mail me directly if you wish:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or, if 
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Thanks,
Kevin


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