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
