I'll bet somebody did a
cat afile /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
instead of
cat afile | /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
That is why you should not be doing stuff as root.
s . keeling wrote:
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:43:25AM +0100, christopher sagayam wrote:
so how to fix the error ?
How did
can anyone please tell me what is happening here ?
[root@ns dump]# /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: DROP: command not found
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: line 12: `CREATE
TABLE
I'm not a mysql person, but I've seen similar stuff.
I think that for some reason Unix thinks that the file
you're trying to execute is not an executable, so it
is trying to run it as a shell script. Try this first:
file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
and when it tells you that it is a text
so how to fix the error ?
How did file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
become a text file ?
chris
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Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: weird error that I
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:43:25AM +0100, christopher sagayam wrote:
so how to fix the error ?
How did file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
become a text file ?
You tell us.
Regardless, is your data still intact? Make sure it's safe, rip out
mysql, and re-install.
Binaries don't just become
