[plug] MySQL help please

[Leon Kyneur]

You need to run mysql_install_db as root.

The installation sounds normal to me.

...Leon

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:24:42 +0800, Jim Householder
<nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> I am trying to install a binary package and am not getting very far.
> The version is 4.0.18-1.1.100mdk from MDK 10 community.
> The RPMs appeared to install correctly, other than the usual 'bad signature's.
> The directory structure used is not the same as that used in the MySQL documentation.
> The documentation uses / as the top of the tree while what I got uses /usr.
> When I execute mysqld_safe to initialise things I get:
> 
>    Fatal error: can't open privilege tables: Can't find file: ./mysql/host.frm
> 
> no matter where I start from.  It exists in /var/lib/mysql/mysql.
> echos in mysqld_safe show it using /var/lib/mysql for the data directory, but / for the base directory.
> Have I dug my hole too deep and have to start over from scratch???
> 
> TIA
> Jim
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