bruce wrote:
how do i set my environment path? when i try to run mysql (foo>mysql -u root -p) i get an err, stating that the mysql isn't in the '/usr/local/bin' dir. however, the mysql is in the '/usr/bin' dir. i would have thought that this dir would have been searched....
when i do a 'which mysql', it points to the '/usr/bin/mysql'.
if i run '/usr/bin/mysql' mysql works. if i simply run 'mysql' it complains that it can't find the '/usr/local/bin/mysql'.
any ideas as to what's going on, or what i should change to simply point to the '/usr/bin' for mysql? i'm not quite sure if i even need the '/usr/local/bin' mysql files...
A standard Fedora installation does not put *anything* in /usr/local/bin, so if there's anything there then presumably you put it there.
If you type: echo $PATH
it will show you the list of directories searched, in order, when you type a command name without a "/" in it. You must have a "mysql" command in one of the directories listed before /usr/bin in your PATH.
So what you need to do is to figure out what is that's on your system in addition to the system-supplied version of mysql and decide which of the two you actually want to use. If you don't want the one in /usr/local/bin, get rid of it.
Paul.
