On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:07:16PM -0800, Betty Chang wrote: > Hi -- I'm sort of new to this, so hopefully, this is not too dumb a > question. I just recently installed a Fedora Core 3 from > distribution, and the installed packages list appears to include mysql. I > see various mysql programs in various directories. > However, I cannot find a mysqld or a safe_mysqld, or mysqld_safe, or > anything like that. > > Am I missing the mysql server, or am I doing something dumb? > Check whether mysql is install just issue rpm -qa|grep -i mysql to start mysql server (root) /etc/init.d/mysql start to start using mysql mysql -h localhost -p -u username name_of_database