Fedora Core 3 and MySql

[Paul Howarth]

a a wrote:
>>You did not follow the instructions carefully enough.
>>
>>Changing directory to /etc/init.d and running "mysql" is not the same as
>>running "mysql" because the "current directory" is not in
>>root's path. So you have run /usr/bin/mysql instead of /etc/init.d/mysql
>>
>>If you want to run something in the current directory, be explicit about it:
>>
>># ./mysql start
>>
>>This stops the search of directories in your path and runs the file from
>>the current directory (".").
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> Thankyou I have learnt something of linux here.
> 
> But when I looked in /etc/init.d/ the file 'mysql' does not exist,
> although I found the file 'mysql'  which I then started and then went
> to check the services:
> 
> [root at spr1-derb3-3-0-cust203 ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
> Initializing MySQL database:                               [  OK  ]
> Starting MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]

I think that was a typo in the original instructions, which should have 
read "/etc/init.d/mysqld start" instead of "/etc/init.d/mysql start"

Unless, that is, those instructions referred to a differently-packaged 
version of mysql that had an initscript called "mysql"...

> [root at spr1-derb3-3-0-cust203 ~]# chkconfig --list
> ....
> mysqld          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> ....
> 
> Is it correct that the service reports all OFF?

This means that the mysql server is not configured to start 
automatically at boot time.

Use "/sbin/service mysqld status" to see if it's currently running.

Use "/sbin/chkconfig mysqld on" to have mysqld start automatically at 
boot time.

Paul.