From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 13:43:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA70914E4A for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:43:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from megadeth.org (shawn.megadeth.org [192.216.87.249]) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10072; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37BDBDE7.A70D2E52@megadeth.org> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:43:19 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stede Bonnet Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Insall of MySQL References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stede Bonnet wrote: > > I recently installed. from the ports section of my 3.2 install MySQL-1.9, > and bought the book tool > > When I read where the book says tat certain directories and files ought to > be, and then 'locate' them on my FreeBSD box, they are in different > places, and my install never did creat eht 'data' director structure that > MySQL says ought to be there. > > Is there an explanation for this, or is my install eunique? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I believe the port puts things other than where the MySQL dist will put things. IE the port will put the databases in /var/db/mysql while the dist. of MySQL will put them in /usr/local/var. But then again, maybe I am way off base. :) It's been awhile since I last installed MySQL... -- Windows 95 (win-DOH-z), n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was used in a PC built by a formerly two bit company that couldn't stand one bit of competition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message