Does anyone have MySQL working on Tiger?

[gw1500se]

I cannot get MySQL to work under Tiger. I installed v 4.1.12 and everything looks OK. However, when I start MySQL, while there are no errors, it will not start mysqld (or mysqld immediately stops silently). Can anyone help me?

[Gerk]

It works great for me on several machines. There are some small permissions adjustments you need to do. I can’t tell them to you off the top of my head, but I know that you can find them on entropy.ch pages in the software -> mysql area.

[gw1500se]

Thanks for the reference. The only thing I found was mention of changing the ownership of the mysql/data directory. That was already done in my case. Were you thinking of something else or was that it?

[Anonymous]

Are you running on a Tiger server or client?
I have some experience on 10.4 server, that I will be
happy to share, if it is useful.

Bo S

[gw1500se]

Thanks. Server.

[gw1500se]

Not having heard from Bo_S is there anyone else that can help me. I have gone through several rounds of uninstalling and installing with no success. Its the same problem every time. After running ‘configure’ I run ‘bin/safe_mysqld’ which outputs the ‘Starting’ message then immediately outputs the ‘STOPPING’ message. No errors and no logs, that I can find, to tell me why it won’t run. TIA.

[Anonymous]

Try starting it like this:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --user=mysql

[gw1500se]

[QUOTE BY= None] Try starting it like this:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data --user=mysql

[/QUOTE]

Thanks, this was the key. It finally gave me an error message that told me what was wrong. I had to fix a permissions problem and now I’m up an running.

[Anonymous]

Also, idk if you’ll see this thread, but it’s advised that everyone run:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_secure_installation

..as root and follow along. It’ll do things like delete the password-less root account, drop the test table, and some other things. Very handy.

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