Fedora Core 3 and MySql

[Rick Chen]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:07:16PM -0800, Betty Chang wrote:
> Hi -- I'm sort of new to this, so hopefully, this is not too dumb a
> question.  I just recently installed a Fedora Core 3 from
> distribution,  and the installed packages list appears  to include mysql.  I
> see various mysql programs in various directories.
> However,  I cannot find a mysqld  or a safe_mysqld, or mysqld_safe,  or
> anything like that.
> 
> Am I missing the mysql server, or am I doing something dumb?
>
Check whether mysql is install just issue
rpm -qa|grep -i mysql

to start mysql server (root)
/etc/init.d/mysql start

to start using mysql
mysql -h localhost -p -u username name_of_database