MySQL Community server with CentOS 5
In case I need this again. After installing the official RPMs from the MySQL site for Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 on a fully patched CentOS 5, the startup script does not work properly, failing to start the server:
[root@centos5 log]# /sbin/service mysql start
Starting MySQL Couldn't find MySQL manager or server [FAILED]
One possible solution is this patch. To apply do:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
patch -p0 < PATH_TO/mysql.rc.patch
And be done with it.
Also useful for DBI-related work is this. Log in to MySQL server as root and do:
grant all privileges on test.* to 'melo'@'localhost';
Adjust melo for your local username.
This will make the installation of DBI and DBD::mysql work out of the box with cpan, testing everything in the process.
