best practices for running 3.23 and 4.016 on the same box?

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Teehan
Hi all I am planning an upgrade for a very busy 3.23 server to 4.016. As we dont have a text box, I have to install both releases on the same machine, and test 4.016 for some time. For 4.016 I will unpack a tar.gz, as I dont trust rpm not to clobber at least some of the 3.23 installation. I will

Re: best practices for running 3.23 and 4.016 on the same box?

2003-11-06 Thread Thierno Cissé
Hi Mark, there is no problem to run both MySQL servers 3.23 / 4.0.16. Just pay attention to (particulary options file) : - configure two my.cnf files, each version must have it server specific options file. remarks that you cannot put the same file in the same place /etc/. Place each of them