"Nick Keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am a MySQL newbie with a post installation problem. I have Linux Red > Hat 9 with MySQL 4.0. After installing MySQL, I can not for the life of > me get the mysql daemon to run. My installation directory is > /usr/local/mysql but it wants to open a database from /var/lib/mysql. > Obviously something is not set right. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Nick > > Oh, and I can not find ANY log files anywhere (/var/lib or > /usr/local/mysql/data). > > Here are some messages: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# pwd > /usr/local/mysql > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# bin/safe_mysqld --console > Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql > 030710 20:52:14 mysqld ended > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# support-files/mysql.server start > Can't execute ./bin/mysqld_safe from dir /var/lib
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