Nick,
Everything you need to know will be in the defaults file you provided when
starting mysqld deamon. Study the following pages very carefully:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/o/Command-line_options.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/O/p/Option_files.html
As for where the databases are *really* located, do a search by the database
names .. To point the mysqld toa specific directory, either
give --datadir=... option in the command line when starting it up, or have
an entry for datadir= variable under [mysqld] in yoru defaults file. You
should have an entry under [safe_mysqld] in your /etc/my.cnf file for
"err-log" . The path defined there is where the error file will be logged
at, if you don't have an entry there, just enter one..
Sincerely,
Gurhan
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From: Nick Wilson [mailto:nick@stripped]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:15 PM
To: mysql@stripped
Subject: Re: lost root password trouble
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* and then Gurhan Ozen declared....
> Are your databases in /var/lib/mysql ?IT is trying to startup with reading
> databaseses from that path but i think it can't..
> Also check the error log file to see what's going on.
Sounds reasonable, 2 questions though:
* how will I tell where the db's are and how to point it at 'em?
* where will I find the error log?
Apologies for being so clueless, but many thanks for all the help...
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Nick Wilson // www.explodingnet.com
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