Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:21:44 -0500 From: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> To: "Fidel Garcia" <fgarcia@systeamusa.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing mysql 4.0 Message-ID: <8225E755-0586-40A3-B756-950F7AA44107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <004001c7e0d7$196cce20$4c466a60$@com> References: <004001c7e0d7$196cce20$4c466a60$@com>
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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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks
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