basic question -linux path..(/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin)

[bruce]

paul...

not sure what top-posting is...

but, when i do a #which mysql , i get
/usr/bin/mysql


when i do #mysql , i get
-bash: /usr/local/bin/mysql: no dir or file

so, how do i find what's causing this... ?????

is it posible the by typing 'mysql' i'm running something else, which is
looking for '/usr/local/bin/mysql'?? how can i correct this???

thanks...

-bruce


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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:24 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: basic question -linux path..(/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin)


bruce wrote:

Please don't top-post on this mailing list.

> when i do an
>  #echo $PATH
>
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/b
>
in:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_02/bin:/opt/condor
> -6.6.6/sbin:/opt/condor-6.6.6/bin:/root/bin
>
> which says that i have both '/usr/local/bin' and '/usr/bin'.

But crucially, you have the following directories *before* /usr/bin:
/usr/kerberos/sbin
/usr/kerberos/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/sbin

So you are picking up "mysql" from one of those directories by default.

$ which mysql

should tell you where it is.

> when i do
>  #mysql, i get
> -bash: /usr/local/bin/mysql: No such file or directory

You're probably running a script that is expecting to find mysql in
/usr/local/bin

> however, the mysql file is in the '/usr/bin' dir, and if i do
>  #/usr/bin/mysql, mysql runs....
>
> the '/usr/bin/my*' dir is:
> [root at lserver2 /]# ls /usr/bin/my*
> /usr/bin/myisamchk                   /usr/bin/mysqld_multi
> /usr/bin/myisamlog                   /usr/bin/mysqldump
> /usr/bin/myisampack                  /usr/bin/mysqldumpslow
> /usr/bin/my_print_defaults           /usr/bin/mysql_find_rows
> /usr/bin/mysql                       /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables
> /usr/bin/mysqlaccess                 /usr/bin/mysqlhotcopy
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin                  /usr/bin/mysqlimport
> /usr/bin/mysqlbinlog                 /usr/bin/mysql_install_db
> /usr/bin/mysqlbug                    /usr/bin/mysql_setpermission
> /usr/bin/mysqlcheck                  /usr/bin/mysqlshow
> /usr/bin/mysql_config                /usr/bin/mysqltest
> /usr/bin/mysql_convert_table_format  /usr/bin/mysql_zap
>
> any ideas as to how to get mysql to run from the command line..??

Find out where you're currently getting "mysql" from (see the "which"
command above) and investigate why that command is present in that
directory. Is it a script? How did it get there?

Paul.

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