Adding mysql/bin dir to my path

[Mark Sargent]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Mark Sargent wrote:
>
>> am wishing to add mysql/bin to my path on FC3. How is this done.? My 
>> book doesn't seem to cover it specifically and googling was not so 
>> clear on it. Cheers.
>
>
> Presumably this is a locally built version of mysql since the FC3 
> mysql has binaries installed in /usr/bin?
>
> If you want to do this for just one account, tweak that accounts's 
> .bash_profile to add the entry.
>
> If you want to do this system-wide, you probably want to add entries 
> to /etc/profile.d to add the directory into the PATH variable at the 
> appropriate place.
>
> Paul.
>
Hi All,

Paul, I had problems with the FC3 rpm for mysql, so I installed via the 
tar file. Following the mysql install faq, it said to place mysql in, 
/usr/local/mysql. Should I move it to the same dir the rpm would have 
installed it to get the paths right..? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.