Specialist Development

I have just tried to install MySQL v5.5.8 onto my Mac running OSX v10.6.6 but have run into a problem when trying to start it. Basically it came up with an error every time and failed to start.

I have come up with a workaround to get it working.

Edit this file

Mac:~ root# vi /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server


You then need to change this line (around line number 67)

bindir=./bin


to

bindir=/usr/local/mysql/bin


then try to start the server with

Mac:~ root# /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
Starting MySQL
. SUCCESS!


All working