On 10/6/06, Chris Elhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apologize for the newbie question.
installed mySQL 4 some time ago, and just played around with it in
terminal. Now that I really need to learn some database, I can't get
it to start in terminal. it autostarts; I can see it in the activity
Usually mysql is located at /usr/local/mysql in the terminal window.
Using Terminal, get to /usr/local/mysql/bin
'ls' will give you the list of files in the folder
Try ./mysqld_safe
On 10/6/06, Chris Elhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apologize for the newbie question.
installed mySQL 4
apologize for the newbie question.
installed mySQL 4 some time ago, and just played around with it in
terminal. Now that I really need to learn some database, I can't get
it to start in terminal. it autostarts; I can see it in the activity
monitor as a background process. but when I try
Chris, what autostarts is likely the server, 'mysqld' (for mysql
daemon). What you need to start to access the server is a client,
'mysql'.
What command are you issuing? just mysql at the terminal prompt?
It seems odd I know, especially to long-time Mac users, but the
operating system may just
