It might have installed it in a separate place. I believe the default
might be /usr/local/libexec/mysqld.
Do a 'find /usr/ -name "mysqld"' to attempt to find your binary.
I always like to install stuff by source, cuz then I can always specify
where things go :) RPM usually should work fine, but sometimes it can be
tricky.
Atle
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, John Jensen wrote:
> I do believe I have a mess on my hands.
> Lacking any other guidance, I tried upgrading my mysql to 3.23 with
> an rpm on a Redhat Linux 6.1 system. I now have the same directory
> layout for mysql as on my Redhat 7 server, except there is no daemon
> to be found there. The only mysql daemon found anywhere is still in
> /usr/local/mysql/bin, and it still doesn't work. Attempts to execute
> no longer insist there is supposed to be a libexec directory. It just
> tells me it can't find any data in the var directory. When I ran
> scripts/mysql_install_db, it just tells me to remember to copy the
> support-files/mysql.server to the right place (wherever that is, if
> not where it is already) and to remember to set a password. That
> doesn't work either. It wants a /tmp/mysql.sock file, and I don't
> have one to give it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> On 21 Feb 2001, at 16:29, Atle Veka wrote:
>
> >
> > where's your mysqld located?
> >
> > just change your safe_mysql script to contain the correct location of
> > your mysqld binary.
> >
> > also, i *think* mysqladmin -uroot -p[pass] shutdown
> > is the preferred shutdown mechanism, didn't even know you could do
> > that with mysql (client).
> >
> > are you sure it's actually stopped? do a 'ps | grep mysqld' to find
> > out ;)
> >
> >
> > Atle
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, John Jensen wrote:
> >
> > > I had shut down the mysql daemon using:
> > > bin/mysql -u root -p[password] shutdown
> > > Now when I attempt to restart it using:
> > > bin/safe_mysql &
> > > it gives me the message:
> > > [1] 2564
> > > The file /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld doesn't exist or is not
> > > executable Please do a cd to the mysql installation directory and
> > > restart this script from there as follows: ./bin/safe_mysql but
> > > ./bin/safe_mysql just gave me the same message prefaced by: [2]
> > > 2570 I checked and found the directory 'libexec' does not exist. I
> > > can't recall it ever did. So now I am left wondering: "Why is it
> > > trying to look in a non-existent direcory?" and "What went wrong?"
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > > John Jensen
> > > 520 Goshawk Court
> > > Bakersfield, CA 93309
> > > 661-833-2858
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