Tried and failed. The problem is that the mysql package automatically uses
/var/lib/mysql, so the right sequence is:
1) yum install mysql-server
2) service mysqld stop
3) adjust my.cnf
4) make moves on filesystem if needed
5) service mysqld start
(steps 2 and 3 can be reversed)
This is hard to
It should be theoretically possible. The mysql-server package owns
/var/lib/mysql, but it is the mysql_install_db script that sets up an empty
database in $datadir when the service starts if $datadir is empty. If you
update your config file before you start the mysql server, you should be
able
Yes that is what I was thinking as well. Unfortunately I don't believe yum
will permit me to specify --noscripts so I can avoid mysql_install_db from
running.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 7:30:31 AM UTC-5, Walter Heck wrote:
Tried and failed. The problem is that the mysql package
I agree and was thinking along those lines as well.
For those interested vicinus (on github) https://github.com/vicinus has
started this and has it working on Ubuntu. See
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/issues/380 for
