$ cd ~/tmp $ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-standard-4.1.9-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.mirrored.ca/ $ su - $ cd /usr/local $ tar xzf /home/mike/tmp/mysql-standard-4.1.9-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz $ ln -s mysql-standard-4.1.9-pc-linux-gnu-i686 mysql $ cd mysql $ scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql $ chown -R root . $ chown -R mysql. data $ mkdir tmp $ chown -R mysql. tmp (adjust /etc/passwd file to make /usr/local/mysql mysql's home directory, or else if the mysql user doesn't exist create it like so: useradd -d /usr/local/mysql mysql
Create or edit /etc/my.cnf so that it reads:
[mysqld] socket=/usr/local/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock [mysqladmin] socket=/usr/local/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock [mysql] socket=/usr/local/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock
(*colorful note: please someone tell me if there is an easier way... and no, I'm not going to install in /var/lib/something)
Complete installation
$ su - mysql $ bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql & $ exit $ mysqladmin password pickapassword
(*another colorful note: the windoze pushers are probably laughing at this point using their installshield like install...)
$ install -m 750 support-files/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql4 $ chkconfig --add mysql4
Now the fun part. I concluded there is a bug in mysqld_safe and/or mysqld, where even though it's instructed to run as a different user, it demands to have access to /root/tmp. It's supposed to have switched user, THEN determine that user's tmp directory.
The solution is to switch to user 'mysql' ourselves, and THEN start up mysqld_safe.
In /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql4 which we just installed, locate:
$bindir/mysqld_safe --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file >/dev/null 2>&1 &
Change this to:
/bin/su - mysql -c "$bindir/mysqld_safe --datadir=$datadir --pid-file=$pid_file >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
