installing mysql on freebsd 5.3

[pablobsd]

could not find mysql in ports .. how do i download nad install on freebsd 5.3

 

[TonyGroves]

According to the MySQL manual at

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/freebsd.html

, it's available at the FreeBSD site.

 

[pablobsd]

i was not abel to get it install on freebsd 5.3
I installed Freebsd 6.0 fine .. mysql50-server installed fine but when i try to start mysql getting the following error message " ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (61)

 

[TonyGroves]

Has the MySQL daemon been started? In a Linux shell, you would start it with the command "mysqld &".

 

[pablobsd]

tried msqld_safe got the following message
"Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/mysql
STOPPING server from pid file /var/db/mysql/my.website.com.pid
060103 15:20:47 mysqld ended

 

[pablobsd]

when i try mysqld &
get this message " mysqld: Command not found.

[1] Exit 1 mysqld"

 

[dbase77]

have you try search mysql under /usr/ports? The best way is to install it through port.

cd /usr/ports
make search name=mysql | more

IF you install it from ports, you have nice little script to start it under /usr/local/etc/rc.d. In order to start it you need to put an entry in /etc/rc.conf file.

regards,
dbase77

 

[pablobsd]

thanks a lot for the response ... it seems there was issue with my permision .. chown -R mysql and chnage psw that work
just try to setup to work with apache2 now but get some error there