Updating mysql on FreeBSD

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Updating mysql on FreeBSD

Last Modified: Oct 4, 2005, 12:20 pm

In this example, we'll use mysql 4.1.14 with FreeBSD 4.x.

**Note: Moving between the 4.0.x tree to the 4.1.x tree will cause password problems. Info here: http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=466

cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/packages
wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd4.8/mysql-standard-4.1.14-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz
cd /usr/local
tar xvzf /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/packages/mysql-standard-4.1.14-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz
ln -s mysql-standard-4.1.14-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386 mysql
cd mysql
rm -rf data
ln -s /home/mysql data
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysqld restart