os X install mySQL help

2003-06-06 Thread 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:

os X install followup

2003-06-06 Thread 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