setting up mysql

banelion · 11-23-2002, 08:09 AM

i would delete the last post but em too stupid

i have MySQL-3.23.53a-1.i386.rpm setup atm, and nfi what to do with it.

most of the stuff in the documentation is on windows >

shell> ./scripts/mysql_install_db

^it says to do that after installing, i dont even have a /scripts/ folder in root :/

well, there is more, it seems like the documentation is for an entirely different product to me.

i can give the ssh pw if someone could please help me that way

markus1982 · 11-23-2002, 11:14 AM

First of all I would never ever hand out ANY passwords! Especially not on forums, etc!

Second, you need to do a rpm -i <filename>

The ./scripts/mysql_install_db is relative to the install path of MySQL. For the RPM-Release this would be something like
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db

To locate it after you've installed the package do find / -name mysql_install_db but for the RPM package most of the stuff is done itself AFAIK.

imposter · 11-28-2002, 10:20 AM

markus good advice.

I had basically the same problem and solved it with a combination of the following advice and one from another thread in this forum. To get mysqld started I used:

shell>mysql -u root mysql

This gets a mysqld process started then followed the instructions on this page:-

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/P...ess/page6.html

Got everything working fine, now to setup PHP..... Let the games begin!