http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Unix_post-installation.html
That manual page will give you the right commands. Basically, after installation, run the mysql_install_db script, then start up MySQL with bin/mysqld_safe. After that, you want to follow the steps that instruct you on how to give your MySQL root user a password.
Wes
On Jul 3, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Arkadi Kagan wrote:
Description:MySQL is not properly configured for first run.
How-To-Repeat:Run standard installation:
./configure
./make
su
./make install
exit
# (exit su)
mysql
-- mysql failed:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld
-- mysqld failed:
Warning: Can't create test file /usr/local/var/arkadi.lower-test
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/usr/local/var/' (Errcode: 2)
Aborting
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown Complete
# Indeed /usr/local/var does not exist and my user should not have
# a write permission to /usr
Fix:Send me to the right part of manual :) Any suggestions are welcome.
Originator: Arkadi MySQL support: email support Category: mysql Class: support Release: mysql-5.0.0-alpha (Source distribution)
<machine, os, target, libraries (multiple lines)>C compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) C++ compiler: g++ (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) Environment:
System: Linux arkadi 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:18:24 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='' CXX='g++' CXXFLAGS='' LDFLAGS='' ASFLAGS=''
LIBC:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 22 00:50 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1549556 Mar 14 2003 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2321376 Mar 14 2003 /usr/lib/libc.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 Mar 14 2003 /usr/lib/libc.so
Configure command: ./configure
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