Hassan Schroeder wrote:

Mark Sargent wrote:

... but, my real query, now, is, why the configs/my.cnf were different,


Because there isn't any /etc/my.cnf created on your system by
default; you are responsible for creating one if needed, using
the examples in the ./support-files subdirectory.

Obviously the /etc/my.cnf on your system was detritus from the
previous installation; it's not surprising it was out of sync
with the new.

earth calling mars???...


Hence my original suggestion to remove all traces of the old MySQL installation before starting fresh :-)

yep, did just that, just wasn't aware that the my.cnf wasn't installed by default(although, in all reality, I shoulda realised such; as how would it have been..)



> along with the coding being wrong in the mysql_install_db

script, which I had to move to /usr/local/mysql from the scripts dir to get it to run without errors.


Extract from the INSTALL-BINARY file in the 4.1.11-standard dist:

 The basic commands you must execute to install and use a MySQL binary
 distribution are:

     shell> groupadd mysql
     shell> useradd -g mysql mysql
     shell> cd /usr/local
     shell> gunzip < /PATH/TO/MYSQL-VERSION-OS.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     shell> ln -s FULL-PATH-TO-MYSQL-VERSION-OS mysql
     shell> cd mysql
     shell> scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
     ...

Note that you are directed to run the script from the MySQL *base*
install directory -- it sounds like you were trying to run it from
./scripts, which makes a big difference in the interpretation of the
'current working directory' :-)

lord, now who feels like a dill...lol...


HTH!

Cheers.

Mark Sargent.

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