### I stole some of the code from the mysql installation scripts. #export prefix=/usr/local/mysql-4.1.5 export lock_file=var/lock/subsys/mysql cd $prefix mkdir -p $prefix/var/log chown -R mysql $prefix/var touch $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log chown mysql:mysql $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log chmod 0640 $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log export datadir=$prefix/data mkdir -p $datadir chown -R mysql:mysql $datadir chmod 0755 $datadir echo "Starting mysql....." nohup $prefix/libexec/mysqld --basedir=$prefix --datadir=$prefix/data --user=mysql --pid-file=$prefix/data/mysql.pid --skip-locking --socket=$prefix/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock -t $prefix/tmp >> $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log 2>&1 & if test -w $prefix/var/lock/subsys/ then touch $prefix/$lock_file fi echo "Done."