To make a long story short, let me say I had MySQL working on Windows 98
and everything was fine. Well, I took the big leap and removed all
traces of Windows and Microsoft from the computer. (hooray!) Once I had
Linux running OK, I downloaded and installed MySQL using an RPM package.
I guess the server is running (it says it is every time the computer
starts and it stops successfully every time the computer shuts down)
however, I cannot figure out how to get the MySQL prompt.
I've searched the entire hard drive for MySQL, mysql, MySQL*, mysql* and
probably some others, too. The only thing I found was a shell script
called mysql that starts or stops the server if I am logged in to Linux
as root. I cannot figure out how to start the interactive program that
allows me to make select statements, inserts, updates, etc.
I'm wondering about some things:
Did I download and install the wrong thing?
Am I just not looking for the correct thing?
Did I install it incorrectly?
All the newsgroup messages and documentation give instructions on what
to do from the MySQL prompt, but nobody says anything about how to get
it except to type mysql from the directory where it's installed.
Needless to say, I've tried that and BASH has no idea what I mean.