Thankx,
That did the trick! So simple yet so. well... simple!
- Original Message -
From: Gerald Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sean Strycker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: MySQL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: Mysqld runnin
add user=mysql to the [mysqld] section of /etc/my.cnf
EX:
[mysqld]
user=mysql
Sean Strycker wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a newbe to Linux and MySQL, but I'm finding it very interesting.
>
> I'll cut right to the chase - I've followed the directions in the manual for the
>binary install on Linux
The biggest help is from INSTALL-SOURCE in the source tarball.
==
The basic commands you must execute to install and use a *MySQL* binary
distribution are:
shell> groupadd mysql
shell> useradd -g mysql mysql
shell> cd /usr
