FC3 and MySQL, did it install or not?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 07:50 +0000, Rob Kirkbride wrote:
> Burke Even wrote on 03/02/2005 21:31:
> 
> >Thanks all for responding. Apparently I missed something on the install. I searched the cd's and found mysql-server-3.23.58-13.i386.rpm - which was not installed.
> >
> >Silly me, I thought mysql-3.23.58-14.i386.rpm was all I needed!
> >
> >So I installed and updated it and ran mysql_install_db ok, and I now have a mysqld. But now the dameon won't run, it times out.
> >
> >The mysqld.log says the table mysql.host doesn't exist, and 'innodb_data_file_path' isn't set. I don't think I need Innodb, just MyIsam table support.
> >
> >And let's not forget the system log (I think, that's /var/log/messages, right?) - it says it denied { write } for exe=/usr/libexec/mysqld. I have enforce set to permissive, so I don't know if this is a problem or just a warning.
> >
> >  
> >
> I'm not sure why you ran mysql_install_db manually. When you first do a 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start it initialises the database and starts 
> everything fine. It's possible by doing it manually you've done it as 
> the wrong user or something - it probably should be done as the mysql 
> user. You could try a /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart (as root) and see 
> if that sorts things out. Failing that you'll have to clean things up 
> and reinitialise - I'll defer to the docs or other people here for how 
> best to do that.
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this may help...
# cat /etc/my.cnf
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-innodb               <--------note

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

Craig