You should see the changes right away. What did you put in the my.cnf file
on the slave?
Also, a good way to trouble shoot is to type "show master status" on the
master and "show slave status" on the slave and compare the results. These
commands should be typed at a MySQL command prompt.
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I finally enabled my server with the replication feature between two
database servers on the same machine. The master.info file is created on the
slave directory and there are no err files. Just to test out the replication
feature I added new tables to the master database, but when I look at the
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