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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:56:40 -0400
From:      "Fidel Garcia" <fgarcia@systeamusa.com>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   FW: Installing mysql 4.0
Message-ID:  <000e01c7e100$590ef2f0$0b2cd8d0$@com>

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This is the error I get. I ran the command as root.

fr# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
Starting mysql.
fr# /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe: cannot create /var/db/mysql/fr.admin.err:
Permission denied

Fidel Garcia
System Engineer

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Crist
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:22 AM
To: Fidel Garcia
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Installing mysql 4.0

Add mysql_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf file, and use the /usr/ 
local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server script to start the process as follows:
% su root
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start

HTH

Eric Crist


On Aug 17, 2007, at 9:01 AMAug 17, 2007, Fidel Garcia wrote:

> Hi
>
>
>
> I have been trying to get mysql running for the past two days  
> without luck.
> I added these two packages using sysinstall from FTP.
>
> mysql-client-4.0.26_1 Multithreaded SQL database (client)
>
> mysql-server-4.0.26_2 Multithreaded SQL database (server)
>
>
>
> I went to the folder /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server/ and did a  
> make
> clean install.
>
>
>
> Then I created the file /etc/my.cnf like
>
>
>
> fr# more my.cnf
>
> [mysqld]
>
> datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data
>
> socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
>
>
>
> [mysql.server]
>
> user=mysql
>
> basedir=/usr/local/bin/mysql
>
>
>
>
>
> I got stuck at this point. I have been reading online without luck.  
> I do not
> even know how to start mysql.
>
>
>
> I hope you guys can point in the right directions.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Fidel Garcia
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Eric F Crist
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