Rick,
I have question need to consult you. Hope you use similar OS system. I use MySQL on
windows few years and it works fine. Now I'm starting MySQL on RedHat Linux. I installed
RPM packege. After installation, the data files & error files are under:
/var/lib/mysql/
the mysql executable is under
/etc/init.d/ I can start the server from here
mysqld_safe is under
/usr/bin/
there was no my.cnf generated, I had to create one and put it in /etc/
what value should I put for basedir = in my.cnf
I added datadir = /data/mysql/data and it worked fine. The server access database in the
directory I setup in my.cnf.
But after I added "log_bin = /data/mysql/log/binlog" in my.cnf,
the log files are generated under /data/mysql/data/ (same dir with database files) and the
log file name start with mysql-bin which is not what I designed start with 'binlog'
I also tried "log_bin = /data/mysql/log" it did help anything.
I checked the mysql account owns all dir's from /data/ and down.
Do you know why I set datadir is working and binary log directory doesn't work?
Thank you,
Lisa
