Try ls to see whether safe_mysqld is in the directory and the run: Safe_mysqld &
Note! You have to be root to run the mysqld demon HTH Babs -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Don Dachner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. April 2004 21:48 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: command not found: trying to start mysql binary 4.1 on Linux. to start mysql, i have to be in: /usr/local/mysql and execute: ./bin/mysql -u root mysql If i'm in another directory, I get "command not found: trying to start mysql". Seems to me this is a PATH issue. I had binary 4.0 working here at one time, but I'm delete most if not all of those files. Don -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]