You forgot the
mysql_install_db --user=mysql
Mark Vann wrote:
> Hey gang, I got the configure script to run with no
> errors and got it installed in the /opt directory by
> using the following.
>
> ../configure --with-named-z-libs=no --without-debug
> --with-mysqld-user=mysql --prefix=/opt/mysql
>
> But after the make install ( and I saw no errors )
> there is no /opt/mysql/var directory and I think there
> is suppsoed to be one. So when I start safe_mysqld I
> get this error,
>
> touch: cannot create /opt/mysql/var/rome-ga-2.err: No
> such file or directory
> chown: /opt/mysql/var/rome-ga-2.err: No such file or
> directory
> Starting mysqld daemon with databases from
> /opt/mysql/var
> ../safe_mysqld: /opt/mysql/var/rome-ga-2.err: cannot
> create
>
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
>
>
>
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