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[Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>]

On Friday 30 January 2004 09:26 am, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:04, Maria Winslow wrote:
> > Good morning all!
> >
> > Does anyone happen to know where MySQL would be likely to put it's
> > database directories and files by default under Mandrake 9.2? If so,
> > please save me from insanity!
>
> Try typign "rpm -ql mysql-server" which will give you the location of
> all the files in the mysql-server package.  (If that gives you an error
> about the package not existing, doea command like "rpm -qa |grep -i
> mysql" to see the exact names of the MySQL packages installed.)
>
> There might be quite a few files in that RPM listing, but I suspect the
> locations you're looking for are in /var . If you can't decipher it,
> please post the output of first command  back to the list and I can
> help.

Thanks, Jeremy. I found it in /var/lib/mysql.
>
> --Jeremy