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Laurent SIMON06 Jul 1999 05:21 
Subject:datadir problem with MySQL-3.22.24-1.i386.rpm
From:Laurent SIMON (lsi@hrnet.fr)
Date:07/06/1999 05:21:40 AM
List:com.mysql.lists.mysql

hi,

i have just downloaded and installed the new rpm of MySQL.

when i wanted to start mysql ( /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start ) the daemon ended with an error "usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist"

looking at /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql line 18 we have: "datadir=/usr/share" ( same as the file /usr/share/mysql/mysql.server )

changing line 18 to "datadir=/var/lib/mysql" will solve the problem.

I hope this would be helpfull for someone.

Laurent lsi@hrnet.fr