URGENT! up2date -u deleted mysql...safest way to recover on production server

2008-05-04 Thread Ian M. Evans
Decided to run up2date -u I noticed that our website was tossing off mysql errors. Quickly realized that mysql was down. Went to restart but it couldn't find mysqld_safe, mysqld, mysqladmin, etc. I used locate and it couldn't find the binaries anywhere...it appears that up2date -u had

Re: URGENT! up2date -u deleted mysql...safest way to recover on production server

2008-05-04 Thread Ian M. Evans
Glyn Astill wrote: I'd back up the data directories then try and then re-install mysql (sorry, I know little about red hat and it's package management). It shouldn't overwrite your data if it's already present anyway. Great. Thought that would be the case, but without sleep, I wasn't sure.