Anand,
Thank you for this very valuable information. I created .profile at ~/
as you instructed.
I,m sorry I know so little but your answer makes me wonder why you wrote
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:
while the installation notes said only
/usr/local/mysql/bin
There is an extra /sbin:
In the ReadMe.pdf that came with the mysql that I downloaded from
mysql.com, there is this comment:
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You might want to add aliases to your shell's resource file to make it
easier to access commonly used programs such as `mysql' and `mysqladmin'
from the command line. The syntax for `bash' is