From: Lenz Grimmer Date: May 22 2003 3:30pm Subject: Re: MySQL 4.0.13 has been released List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/140514 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thu, 22 May 2003, Ben Clewett wrote: > I've downloaded this version of MySQL for Linux, and following carefully > the instructions in INSTALL-BINARY, have found this definitelly does not > work. The instuctions: > > shell> groupadd mysql > shell> useradd -g mysql mysql > shell> cd /usr/local > shell> gunzip < /path/to/mysql-VERSION-OS.tar.gz | tar xvf - > shell> ln -s full-path-to-mysql-VERSION-OS mysql > shell> cd mysql > shell> scripts/mysql_install_db > shell> chown -R root . > shell> chown -R mysql data > shell> chgrp -R mysql . > shell> bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql & > > Complete, but then running the final deamon gives: > > touch: creating `/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log': No such file or directory > chown: getting attributes of `/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log': No such file > or directory > Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data > bin/safe_mysqld: /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log: No such file or directory > bin/safe_mysqld: /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log: No such file or directory > tee: /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log: No such file or directory > 030522 15:29:46 mysqld ended > tee: /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log: No such file or directory > > [1]+ Exit 1 bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql > > Looking at my system, the install has not created /var/lib/mysql, or in > fact created any *mysql* file outside /usr/local/mysql. > > Can you please tell me where I am going wrong? Do you still have a configuration file named /etc/my.cnf installed by chance? This might explain why MySQL is choosing the wrong directory names here. Remove (or rename) this file and try to start MySQL once again. Bye, LenZ - -- For technical support contracts, visit https://order.mysql.com/?ref=mlgr __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Mr. Lenz Grimmer / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, Production Engineer /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Hamburg, Germany <___/ www.mysql.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+zO0sSVDhKrJykfIRApxTAJ4ktlEX6tDiZuKscxJEsiVhTGv/KwCfbYsR a1G/x9ulb8m4caYrc3bkckI= =if94 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----