Solaris 2.6 had the infamous 'tar' bug that caused
tar to silently fail when path names exceeded some number
of characters - about 125 characters, I think.
Make sure you have your 'tar' patch level up to date.
Regards,
Kevin
Wattanapol wrote:
>I've installed the binary
I've installed the binary distribution of mysql 3.23.36 on the Solaris Sparc
MAchine
when I extract the file mysql-3.23.39-sparc-sun-solaris2.6.tar to
/usr/local/mysql-3.23.39-sparc-sun-solaris2.6
when I invoke the script mysql_install_db in ./scripts directory when it
try to invoke
the mydqld