From: Michael Widenius Date: March 18 1999 9:00pm Subject: MySQL 3.22.20 installation and my.cnf problems List-Archive: Message-Id: <> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "Janos" == Janos Koppany writes: Janos> Subject: mysql starting problem Janos> I work with NT-4.0 and have the following mysql version: Janos> mysql Ver 9.31 Distrib 3.22.20, for Win95/Win98 (i586) Janos> The installation of mysql copies everything into C:\mysql. Janos> After the installation I tried to start mysqld.exe with the command Janos> C:\mysql\bin\mysqld. After 20-30 seconds the process exists. Janos> When I specify at least one switch (for example -T) the process Janos> keeps running. Janos> Does anybody know what the problem is ? Janos> The second problem is that mysqld needs the option file in C:\my.cnf. Janos> The documentation says that my.cnf could be in for example C:\mysql\data Janos> too but this did not work for me. Janos> Is there a solution that mysqld finds the my.cnf or (an other) Janos> configuration Janos> file at an other location ? The best would be if it would work even if Janos> I moved c:\mysql for example to d:\db\mysql too. We just found at that there is a problem with NT and MySQL 3.22.20; Temporary fix: Add a file in C:\my.cnf with the following information: [mysqld] basedir=C:/mysql/ If you move MySQL distribution to another harddisk / directory, you have only to change the above path! Sorry for the inconvenience :) I still can't understand why this worked on our NT machine... Regards, Monty