Thanks. This gets me going. Re proper file permissions: there seem to be mysql files all over the place. Do I have to find them all and change permissions on all of them? The MySQL manual I downloaded lists about eight different directories as including MySQL files, and I'll already seen at least one case where my installation put something in a different directory. (The rpm I installed is mysql-4.1.11-2 according to 'rpm -q mysql'.)
I personally would suggest installing a mysql binary distribution from mysql.com This way you have all files in /usr/local/mysql/ which might be easier for you than to start with the redheat-distribution mysql, which (according to you) seems to split files in different directories.
If you want to run mysql server as user "eric", make sure to replace the user "mysql" mentioned in the INSTALL-BINARY-instruction-file with the user "eric".
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