source: server/databases/mysql.xml@ ffc584a3

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<sect1 id="mysql" xreflabel="MySQL-&mysql-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="mysql.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>MySQL-&mysql-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="mysql">
    <primary sortas="a-MySQL">MySQL</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to MySQL</title>

    <para><application>MySQL</application> is a widely used and fast SQL
    database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a
    server daemon and many different client programs and libraries.</para>

    <para>There may be a more recent release available from the
    <application>MySQL</application> home page. You can check
    <ulink url="http://dev.mysql.com/"/> and probably use the
    existing BLFS instructions. Note that versions other than the one shown
    in the download URLs have not been tested in a BLFS environment.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mysql-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mysql-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &mysql-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &mysql-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &mysql-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &mysql-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Required Patches: 
        <ulink  url="&patch-root;/mysql-&mysql-version;-logevent-1.patch"/>
         <ulink url="&patch-root;/mysql-&mysql-version;-client-1.patch"/>
         </para>
       </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>


    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">MySQL Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="openssl"/> and
    <xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/>

    <!-- Removing libedit because it causes more problems than it solves.

    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libedit/">libedit</ulink>
    (as an alternative to readline)-->

    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mysql"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of MySQL</title>

    <para>For security reasons, running the server as an unprivileged user
    and group is strongly encouraged:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 40 mysql &amp;&amp;
useradd -c "MySQL Server" -d /dev/null -g mysql -s /bin/false \
        -u 40 mysql</userinput></screen>

    <note><para>There are a great many options available to
    <userinput>./configure</userinput>.  Check the output of the
    <option>--help</option> option for additional customization
    options.</para></note>

    <para>Build and install <application>MySQL</application> by
    running the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../mysql-&mysql-version;-logevent-1.patch &amp;&amp;
patch -Np1 -i ../mysql-&mysql-version;-client-1.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
            --localstatedir=/srv/mysql \
            --enable-thread-safe-client \
            --enable-assembler \
            --enable-local-infile \
            --with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock \
            --without-debug \
            --without-readline \
            --with-plugins=innobase,myisam \
            --with-extra-charsets=all \
            --with-ssl &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make test-force 2>&amp;1 | tee
    test.log</command>.  This forces the test to run to completion and logs all
    the test output.  There will be many tests that are not run due to
    configuration options and developer considerations.  Note that if you have
    a restrictive <filename>/etc/hosts.deny</filename> file, you will need to
    add an appropriate entry to the <filename>/etc/hosts.allow</filename> file
    for the <command>mysqld</command> daemon. Otherwise many of the tests will
    fail.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make benchdir_root=/tmp/mysql-bench install &amp;&amp;
rm -rf /tmp/mysql &amp;&amp;
cd /usr/lib &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sf mysql/libmysqlclient{,_r}.so* .</userinput></screen>

    <tip>
      <para>The only documentation shipped in the source tarball are
      <filename>mysql.info</filename>, <filename>manual.chm</filename>
      (Microsoft Help format) files, and man pages. You can download various 
      formats of the <application>MySQL</application> Reference Manual 
      from <ulink url="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/"/>.</para>
    </tip>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/sbin</parameter>: This switch installs
    the <command>mysqld</command> daemon and the
    <command>mysqlmanager</command> program in an appropriate location.</para>

    <para><parameter>--localstatedir=/srv/mysql</parameter>: This switch
    forces <application>MySQL</application> to use
    <filename class='directory'>/srv/mysql</filename> for database files and
    other variable data.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-thread-safe-client</parameter>: This
    switch compiles a thread-safe <application>MySQL</application> client
    library.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-assembler</parameter>: This switch allows using
    assembler versions of some string functions.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-local-infile</parameter>: This switch enables
    the <quote>LOAD DATA INFILE</quote> SQL statement.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysql</parameter>:
    This switch puts the unix-domain socket into the
    <filename class="directory">/var/run/mysql</filename> directory instead of
    the default <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--without-readline</parameter>: This switch forces the
    build to use the system copy of <application>readline</application> instead
    of the bundled copy.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-extra-charsets=all</parameter>: This switch enables
    international character sets within the suite.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-plugins=innobase,myisam</parameter>: This switch enables
    two useful table types.  Check <command>./configure --help</command> for
    other table types.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-ssl</parameter>: This switch enables encrypted
    communication between client and server.</para>

    <para><command>make  benchdir_root=...</command>: This installs the benchmark
    and test suites in a non-system location.</para>

    <para><command>ln -v -sf mysql/libmysqlclient{,_r}.so* .</command>: This
    command makes the <application>MySQL</application> shared libraries
    available to other packages at run-time.</para>

    <para><option>--with-openssl</option>: This switch adds OpenSSL support
    to <application>MySQL</application>.</para>

    <para><option>--with-libwrap</option>: This switch adds tcpwrappers
    support to <application>MySQL</application>.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring MySQL</title>

    <sect3 id="mysql-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/my.cnf</filename> and
      <filename>~/.my.cnf</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="mysql mysql-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.my.cnf">~/.my.cnf</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="mysql mysql-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-my.cnf">/etc/my.cnf</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>There are several default configuration files available in
      <filename class="directory">/usr/share/mysql</filename> which you can
      use. Create <filename>/etc/my.cnf</filename> using the following command
      as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 /usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
sed -i -e s/^skip-federated/#skip-federated/ /etc/my.cnf</userinput></screen>

      <para>The change to <filename>/etc/my.cnf</filename> can be omitted if the
      option <option>--with-plugins=federated</option> is used.</para>

      <para>You can now install a database and change the ownership to the
      unprivileged user and group (perform as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user):</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mysql_install_db --user=mysql &amp;&amp;
chgrp -v mysql /srv/mysql{,/test,/mysql}</userinput></screen>

      <para>Further configuration requires that the
      <application>MySQL</application> server is running. Start
      the server using the following commands as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -o mysql -g mysql -d /var/run/mysql &amp;&amp;
mysqld_safe --user=mysql 2&gt;&amp;1 &gt;/dev/null &amp;</userinput></screen>

      <para>A default installation does not set up a password for the
      administrator, so use the following command as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user to set one. Replace
      <replaceable>&lt;new-password&gt;</replaceable> with your own.</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mysqladmin -u root password <replaceable>&lt;new-password&gt;</replaceable></userinput></screen>

      <para>Configuration of the server is now finished. Shut the server
      down using the following command as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mysqladmin -p shutdown</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

    <sect3  id="mysql-init">
      <title>Boot Script</title>

      <para>Install the <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql</filename> init script
      included in the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package as
      the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user to start the
      <application>MySQL</application> server during system boot-up.</para>

      <indexterm zone="mysql mysql-init">
        <primary sortas="f-mysql">mysql</primary>
      </indexterm>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install-mysql</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>comp_err, innochecksum, msql2mysql, my_print_defaults,
        myisam_ftdump, myisamchk, myisamlog, myisampack, mysql,
        mysql_client_test, mysql_config, mysql_convert_table_format,
        mysql_create_system_tables, mysql_explain_log, mysql_find_rows,
        mysql_fix_extensions, mysql_fix_privilege_tables, mysql_install_db,
        mysql_secure_installation, mysql_setpermission, mysql_tableinfo,
        mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, mysql_waitpid, mysql_zap, mysqlaccess, mysqladmin,
        mysqlbinlog, mysqlbug, mysqlcheck, mysqld, mysqld_multi, mysqld_safe,
        mysqldump, mysqldumpslow, mysqlhotcopy, mysqlimport, mysqlmanager,
        mysqlshow, mysqltest, mysqltestmanager, mysqltestmanager-pwgen,
        mysqltestmanagerc, perror, replace, resolve_stack_dump, and
        resolveip</seg>
        <seg>libdbug.a, libheap.a, libmyisam.a, libmyisammrg.a,
        libmysqlclient.{so,a}, libmysqlclient_r.{so,a}, libmystrings.a,
        libmysys.a, and libvio.a</seg>
        <seg>/srv/mysql, /usr/include/mysql, /usr/lib/mysql, /usr/share/mysql, and
        /var/run/mysql</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>

    <para>Descriptions of all the programs and libraries would be several
    pages long. Instead, consult the <filename>mysql.info</filename>
    documentation or the on-line reference manual at <ulink
    url="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html"/>.</para>

    <para>The <application>Perl</application> DBI modules must be installed
    for some of the <application>MySQL</application> support programs to
    function properly.</para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>