RE: Changing the data directory.

2003-09-22 Thread Jeff McKeon
> At 4:22 PM -0400 9/19/03, Jeff McKeon wrote: > >We've got mysql 3.23 installed on a redhat system via the rpm's that > >come with RedHat 8.0. I'd like to change the default data > directory so > >something other than /var/lib/mysql. I know this is supposed to be > >possible with a start swi

Re: Changing the data directory.

2003-09-19 Thread Paul DuBois
At 4:22 PM -0400 9/19/03, Jeff McKeon wrote: We've got mysql 3.23 installed on a redhat system via the rpm's that come with RedHat 8.0. I'd like to change the default data directory so something other than /var/lib/mysql. I know this is supposed to be possible with a start switch of --datadir=/pa

Changing the data directory.

2003-09-19 Thread Jeff McKeon
We've got mysql 3.23 installed on a redhat system via the rpm's that come with RedHat 8.0. I'd like to change the default data directory so something other than /var/lib/mysql. I know this is supposed to be possible with a start switch of --datadir=/path/to/data but it doesn't seem to work. Th

Re: Changing the data directory

2002-07-06 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
Satish, Friday, July 05, 2002, 9:26:23 PM, you wrote: SS> I am a newbie to MySQL administratation. I just SS> setup MySQL in my linux machine and want to change the SS> data directory from /var/lib/mysql to something else. SS> I put the .my.cnf file in the /etc/ directory and SS> specified th

Changing the data directory

2002-07-05 Thread Satish Santhakumar
Hi Guys, I am a newbie to MySQL administratation. I just setup MySQL in my linux machine and want to change the data directory from /var/lib/mysql to something else. I put the .my.cnf file in the /etc/ directory and specified the parameter datadir=/home/mysql but it gives me an error invalid o