On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:04:44PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Mark Mielke <mark(a)mark.mielke.cc> said:
> The symptom is that it tries to 'Initializing MySQL database: ', and then
> fails, because /usr/bin/mysql_install_db honours /etc/my.cnf and is able
> to determine (I guess?) that there is nothing to do. When init.d/mysqld
> continues, $datadir still doesn't exist...
Since the "initializing MySQL database" is something that only has to be
done once, just let it do it in the default place and then leave that
directory alone. The init script thinks the database is initialized,
you change /etc/my.cnf to point to your real database, and you don't
have to edit anything going forward.
I wasn't looking for a work around. I'm looking to see if there is
interest in fixing it before Fedora Core is released... :-)
mark
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