Matthew Gardner wrote: > So, I was trying to run mysql on my computer at home to do some rails > stuff (just playing around, and moving a CS 360 project to my computer > so I could see it at home - I'm running OSX 10.5, if that's important), > and it works fine, but to start the daemon the installation is requiring > that I be in the directory with the mysql bin/ folder. I thought that > was kind of annoying, so I decided to make an alias in my .bashrc to > change directories, start the process, then change back. Probably an > easier way to do it would be to put in the alias all of the options that > make it so I don't have to do the change directories business, but I'm > not sure what all of those options are. Anyway, this was the alias that > I put in .bashrc: > alias 'mysql-start'='cd ~/Documents/mysql-5.0.51b-osx10.5-x86; > bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=my.cnf &; cd ~-' >
Try alias 'mysql-start'='cd ~/Documents/mysql-5.0.51b-osx10.5-x86; bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=my.cnf & cd ~-' It should start the process in the background and change directory. Don't put the "&" and the ";" together. Just one or the other. You could even put the job in the background and disown it, then change the directory: bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=my.cnf & disown; cd ... -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
