Hi everyone, I have read the READMEs the FAQs and the excellent
beginners tutorial at
www.devshed.com but I cant get MySQL working.

when I run mysqld as root it gives 'cant change dir to /var/lib/mysql
errcode:2'
and that directory doesnt exist. I have installed all the mysql RPMs off
the Mandrake 7.0
CD except for some of the developer ones.

someone suggested this is because I dont have a database for it to work
with, so I did
mysqladmin create testdb
but that returned

connect to server at '' failed; error:  'Cant connect to local mysql
server (111)'

presumably because the daemon bit wasnt running.

any ideas??

thanks!!


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