Chris, what autostarts is likely the server, 'mysqld' (for mysql daemon). What you need to start to access the server is a client, 'mysql'.
What command are you issuing? just mysql at the terminal prompt? It seems odd I know, especially to long-time Mac users, but the operating system may just not know where that program is. You may have to run something like /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql to access it. Can you tell what the path to mysqld is? It's very likely the same path. You can add that directory to your PATH environment variable in the next exercise. ;) Dan On 10/5/06, Chris Elhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
apologize for the newbie question. installed mySQL 4 some time ago, and just played around with it in terminal. Now that I really need to learn some database, I can't get it to start in terminal. it autostarts; I can see it in the activity monitor as a background process. but when I try to invoke it from Term I get a 'cmd not found' message. trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong: chris. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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