I am a MySQL newbie with a post installation problem. I have Linux Red
Hat 9 with MySQL 4.0. After installing MySQL, I can not for the life of
me get the mysql daemon to run. My installation directory is
/usr/local/mysql but it wants to open a database from /var/lib/mysql.
Obviously something is not set right. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Nick
Oh, and I can not find ANY log files anywhere (/var/lib or
/usr/local/mysql/data).
Here are some messages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# pwd
/usr/local/mysql
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# bin/safe_mysqld --console
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
030710 20:52:14 mysqld ended
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# support-files/mysql.server start
Can't execute ./bin/mysqld_safe from dir /var/lib
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]# env
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000
SSH_CLIENT=216.221.96.219 38781 22
OLDPWD=/usr/local/mysql/bin
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/2
USER=root
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;0
1:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.b
tm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:
*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*
.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;3
5:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/lib
USERNAME=root
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
:/root/bin
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
PWD=/usr/local/mysql
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc
LOGNAME=root
SSH_CONNECTION=216.221.96.219 38781 192.168.0.2 22
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
_=/bin/env
