os X install mySQL help

[gerald jones - Sun Microsystems - Broomfield United States]

This is a mac os X installation problem:   When I download/install the pkg 
version of mysql 4.0.13, two directories seem to be missing in 
/usr/local/bin/mysql:  var/ and run/.  So, when I try to run mysqld_safe (or 
safe_mysqld), I get errors like:


touch: /usr/local/mysql/var/myhostname.err: No such file or directory
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var...


followed by alot more errors which basically say, you don't have a var/ 
directory or a run/ directory.  Is this addressed anywhere in the manual?

If I run sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe, I get the mysqld ended error, and this is 
what my .err file says about it:


Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: No such file or directory
030605 10:59:08  Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: 
/usr/local/mysql/run/mysql_socket ?
030605 10:59:08  Aborting

what's going on here, I've been trying to install this for 10 hours???


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os X install followup

[gerald jones - Sun Microsystems - Broomfield United States]

This is a follow-up mac os X installation problem:  I mentioned in an earlier 
e-mail that var/ and run/ are nowhere to be found, so I did as Jim Dickenson 
suggested and mv'd data to var.  now when I run ./bin/mysqld_safe , I get an 
error that says /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysql is missing (because there is no 
libexec directory.  So I edited the mysqld_safe script to look in bin instead of 
libexec.  But it gives methe same error as before when I read the .err log file:

Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: No such file or directory
 030605 10:59:08  Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket:
 /usr/local/mysql/run/mysql_socket ?
 030605 10:59:08  Aborting


???
-Gerald (Jay) Jones
 


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