On Jan 17, 9:15am, Robert Elz wrote:
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} Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:21:02 -0800
} From: John Nemeth <jnem...@cue.bc.ca>
} Message-ID: <201901161621.x0ggl2pk007...@server.cornerstoneservice.ca>
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} | MySQL is quite simple to setup,
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} How does one tell it exactly where the database should be stored?
If you're using the package, then it is:
mysqld=YES mysqld_datadir="/usr/local/mysql"
If not, then it is mysqld ... --datadir=[path] ...
} My database is currently just flles, with vi and awk to support it...,
} but the data files for this particular datbase (not others) need to be
} on a cgd not just wherever mysql believes databases should be stored.
By default, the package puts it in /var/mysql, which I think
is a rather silly default.
}-- End of excerpt from Robert Elz
