Hello everyone, Recently, while installing MySQL, I ran into an error[1] which complained about the hostname: ----------- Neither host 'blahblah' nor 'localhost' could be looked up with /usr/bin/resolveip Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with the --force option -----------
I looked a bit into the scripts/mysql_install_db script and was able to figure out what the "real" issue was (as explained in that blog[1]). In short, the /usr/bin/resolveip is a non-existent command (due to incorrect path). So, in such cases, would it be possible to print out a better error message which would tell the users what the real problem is? Something like: "/usr/bin/resolveip" command not found. Make sure basedir (and other variables) point to the right location. Tip: resolveip can be located in the bin folder of MySQL download location. [1] http://tinyurl.com/35l5lvg regards, -Jaikiran
