MySQL setup without "mysql.server" in CentOS5
 

Hello all,

I am using CentOS5 and installed the MySQL for server during the installation. I can set up and use MySQL databases. But I cannot make it startup everytime the server restarts. And quite a lot of methods need this folder "support-files/mysql.server", while my set up cannot find this. I am wondering if my installation of the MySQL for server is complete or not. Please suggest. Thanks.

Regards,
Eric

How did you install MySQL? (By selecting it during CentOS install time? Using yum, from the CentOS repositories? Or something else?)

Should be as simple as:

Thanks, anomie. Now can autostart the MySQL everytime reboot the server.

I installed MySQL during the CentOS installation without using yum. And here is the output:
#rpm -qa centos-release mysql\* | sort
centos-release-5-5.el5.centos
mysql-5.0.77-4.el5_5.3
mysql-server-5.0.77-4.el5_5.3


Regards,
Eric

Figured this out.

Below is the statement from MySQL doc:

If you use the Linux server RPM package (MySQL-server-VERSION.rpm), the mysql.server script is installed in the /etc/init.d directory with the name mysql. You need not install it manually. Some vendors provide RPM packages that install a startup script under a different name such as mysqld.

So i believe this is my case.

Regards,
Eric