IIRC Slackware 7 and 8 come with MySQL preinstalled.

But.. it does compile fine here.. on both 7 and 8. But you really have to uninstall (pkgtool) the default installed.. next you follow all the staps as explained in the MySQL manual (actually a file in the docs directory).

Have fun,


B.

At 16:11 24-10-02 -0700, Blain Nelson wrote:
Howdy,

I've used MySQL before, a few years ago, under Slackware. I never could get it to compile (despite
lots of help from folks here), but a pre-rolled binary did just fine for what I needed at the time.
That system is no longer hooked up.

I've recently installed a newer version of Slack (7.0 I believe) which comes with MySQL in it, but I
can't get mysqld to run either on its own or (preferably) with safe_mysqld.

It appears that all the scripts are in /usr/bin/, mysqld is in /usr/libexec/ and the data files are off
of /var/lib/mysql/.

I did do mysql_install_db, but, when I try to use safe_mysqld &, it says that it's starting, and then
it says that it's done. When I look in /var/lib/mysql/ there is a .err file that says
"/usr/libexec/mysqld Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)". It's very insistant about this,
btw -- I've checked several times, and that's all that it has to say about that.

The manual says that errno: 13 means we've got a permission problem, but I've tried chmod to the
/var/lib/mysql/ and /var/lib/mysql/mysql/ directories and their contents, and that doesn't seem to make
anybody happier.

So, for you folks I've seen in the archive saying how Slack rocks (with which I agree), a hand would be
appreciated.

Additional data in case it's handy:

mysqlaccess indicates that this is:
$VERSION = "2.06, 20 Dec 2000";
and
$SERVER = "3.21"

Any other information you can tell me how to find out for you will be given on request, but I may ask
for commonly used words to be defined or clarified because I'm not all that great with this stuff.

TIA,
Blain


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