From: Christian Mack
Date: March 31 1999 4:44pm
Subject: Re: Binary Distribution Question
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David Mifsud wrote:
> 
> Hi people,
> 
> I need to get MySQL installed on an SGI-IRIX 6.4 account, and therefore
> downloaded the binary. Is it possible to pass some paraments or something
> such that the binaries do not expect to find the files at
>   /usr/local/bin
> 
> without having to recompile everything myself??
> 
> dave
> --
> David Mifsud

Hi David

Sure you can.

You only have to give the option '--basedir=/where/your/bin/is' to mysqld on startup.
You also can change the directory where your database data is with '--datadir=/...'

To get these changes automaticly, you can edit your script 'mysql.server' or you can add the my.cnf.

Tschau
Christian