Permissions block database creation

2006-03-14 Thread Doug Pinkerton
I'm a total newbie working through the tutorial in DuBois's _MySQL_. I've got MySQL running on my PowerBook. In Terminal, I can use the mysql client to get responses to things like SELECT NOW(). But the command CREATE DATABASE sampdb; results in the following error. ERROR 1044 (42000):

Installer problem - Where did it go?

2004-01-22 Thread Doug Pinkerton
I'm a total newbie. I just ran the installer (mysql-standard-4.0.17.pkg) on my Mac (10.2.1). The installer ran correctly and said that it successfully installed the package. But I can't find it. It's not in Applications or Utilities. I actually read the Read Me file, which says that it's at