On 7/4/05, steve lasiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First let me say that I've been sucessful in finding > all my answer either online, at the BSD website, or in > my "Absolute BSD" book until now. I recently installed > FreeBSD version 5.4 along with Apache 1.3, PHP5, and > MySQL 5.02. I had everything working together great > until today when I tried to copy over a .sql file so > MySQL could see it and run it. I accidentally copied > it over to /usr/local/bin/mysql thinking mysql was a > directory. You can see the problem. Now I cannot start > mysql at the command prompt from the /usr/local/bin > since I overwrote the the required mysql file. > > My question(s) are: Is there any way to revert back to > the original file if this type of mistake is made? If > not is there anyway to get just that one file without > having to do a complete removal and installation? And > finally, is the only way to NOT do this again is to > use the appropriate flags with cp? > > Thanks for you help,
Well, first of all, you dont need to put queries in any special location to use them... you can always run mysql with < query.sql to do that. As far as getting the executable back, you can try pkg_add'ing it back and see if that helps or wait for someone with more familiarity with the ports system to chime in. good luck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
