When I installed from RedHat disc, if I ran mysql_install_db prior to setting the
password, I was unable to use mysq, b/c couldn't find mysql.sock. If I install, and
simply issue password, and start mysql up, the initial tables, mysql and test were
created. Running mysql_install_db continually
010511 18:05:14 mysqld started
010511 18:05:14 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
010511 18:05:14 mysqld ended
These error messages above are in the log when I start mysql with:
/usr/local/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql
I can't figure out why, I ran mysql_install_db
