startup in OS-X

[Chris Elhardt]

apologize for the newbie question.

installed mySQL 4 some time ago, and just played around with it in  
terminal.  Now that I really need to learn some database, I can't get  
it to start in terminal.  it autostarts; I can see it in the activity  
monitor as a background process.  but when I try to invoke it from  
Term I get a 'cmd not found' message.

trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong:
chris.