I installed MySQL 4.0.4-beta from a cdrom that came with the book "Teach yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache" (a SAMs publication) on a linux 7.2 OS. I installed the binary distribution and attempted to follow the directions from the included manual.
When I execute the command: .bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql & I see displayed: starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data mysqld ended then I hit a carriage return and see [1]+ done bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql And I grep for the process mysql using ps -ef and it is not there. I found a file called $hostname.err and it said "Can't find messagefile 'mysql-4.0.4-beta-pc-linux-gnu-i686/share/mysql/englishy/errmsg.sys'". Does this mean I don't have some environment variables set up correctly? So how do I start debugging this problem? thanks Joel
