Hi Sounds like you need to update your path in your shell profile. Check out the file dot file in your home directory and add the /usr/local/mysql/bin directory to it. Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "aaldrik groenewold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: August 6, 2003 7:12 PM Subject: connection > I just installed mysql 4.0 .There were many problems > with upgrading from 3.23 to 4.0 so I deleted 3.23 and > made a fresh start with 4.0. Everything works fine now > but the only problem to connect to the server is via > the /usr/local/mysql/bin directory. Is there a way to > connect if I am root. thanks for your help. > -aaldrik > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]