Keith Woodworth writes:
> I dont have a my.cnf but now need to relocate the database on the system,
> where does mysql get the environtment var's it uses to start by default?
It doesn't get them from env vars AFAIK, but you can change them at
compile time. Also, there are command-line parameter
Plesae review your log files!
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, nirav shah wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I have got mysql current 3.23 version installed
> with linux in my pc.
>
> but it is not working properly when i give
> command
>
> $ safe_mysqld
>
> Here after few seconds, it dis
You need to look at the mysql error log, usually in your data directory.
99% of the time, if this is your first attempt to use MySQL you don't have
the permissions tables created yet. There should be a mysql_install_db
script that cam with your system, see if you have that, and try running
