command not found: trying to start mysql

[Don Dachner]

binary 4.1 on Linux.
 
to start mysql, i have to be in: /usr/local/mysql 
and execute:
 
./bin/mysql -u root mysql
 
If i'm in another directory, I get "command not found: trying to start mysql". Seems 
to me this is a PATH issue.
 
I had binary 4.0 working here at one time, but I'm delete most if not all of those 
files.
 
Don