post installation problem

[Nick Keeling]

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I am a MySQL newbie with a post installation problem. I have Linux Red
Hat 9 with MySQL 4.0. After installing MySQL, I can not for the life of
me get the mysql daemon to run. My installation directory is
/usr/local/mysql but it wants to open a database from /var/lib/mysql.
Obviously something is not set right. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Nick

Oh, and I can not find ANY log files anywhere (/var/lib or
/usr/local/mysql/data).

Here are some messages:
[root@localhost mysql]# pwd
/usr/local/mysql
[root@localhost mysql]# bin/safe_mysqld --console
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
030710 20:52:14 mysqld ended
[root@localhost mysql]# support-files/mysql.server start
Can't execute ./bin/mysqld_safe from dir /var/lib
[root@localhost mysql]# env
HOSTNAME=localh ost.localdomain
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000
SSH_CLIENT=216. 221.96.219 38781 22
OLDPWD=/usr/local/mysql/bin
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/2
USER=root
LS_COLORS=no=00 :fi=00:di=00;34 :ln=00;36:pi=40 ;33:so=00;35:bd =40;33;01:cd=40 ;33;0
1:or=01;05;37;4 1:mi=01;05;37;4 1:ex=00;32:*.cm d=00;32:*.exe=0 0;32:*.com=00;3 2:*.b
tm=00;32:*.bat= 00;32:*.sh=00;3 2:*.csh=00;32:* .tar=00;31:*.tg z=00;31:*.arj=0 0;31:
*.taz=00;31:*.l zh=00;31:*.zip= 00;31:*.z=00;31 :*.Z=00;31:*.gz =00;31:*.bz2=00 ;31:*
..bz=00;31:*.tz =00;31:*.rpm=00 ;31:*.cpio=00;3 1:*.jpg=00;35:* .gif=00;35:*.bm p=00;3
5:*.xbm=00;35:* .xpm=00;35:*.pn g=00;35:*.tif=0 0;35:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH =/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/lib
USERNAME=root
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
:/root/bin
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
PWD=/usr/local/mysql
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
BASH_ENV=/root/.bashrc
LOGNAME=root
SSH_CONNECTION= 216.221.96.219 38781 192.168.0.2 22
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
G_BROKEN_FILENA MES=1
_=/bin/env

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