What If Things Don’t Work | 75

Windows
C:\mysql-5.0.22-win32\bin fora “no-install” (zip) installation C:\Program Files
\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin fora standard installation and C:\Program Files
\xampp\mysql\bin for an XAMPP installation.
Mac OS X
/usr/local/mysql/bin fora system-wide installation from a tarball or source files,

/mysql-5.0.22/bin fora local gzipped-tar installation, /Applications/xampp/xampp
files/bin for an XAMPP installation.
If you can’t find the MySQL programs in one of these directories, try to remember where you installed the server files. On a Linux or Mac OS X system, use the find command as the root user to locate the mysqld_safe program find / -name mysqld_safe
If you run this command as an ordinary user (not as root, you’re likely to see lots of
“permission denied messages telling you that you can’t look inside certain directories.
On a Windows system, use the search tool to look for files with the word “mysql” in their names. If your search doesn’t turn anything up, it’s likely that MySQL hasn’t in fact been installed. Run the installation process again, note the directory in which the files will be installed, and ensure that all the steps complete successfully.
Once you know where the executable programs are located, you can run each executable program by specifying the full path to it—for example /usr/local/mysql/mysqladmin status
on a Linux or Mac OS X system, and:
C:\> "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqladmin status
on a Windows system.
If the MySQL bin directory is listed in your system PATH, you can simply type:
$ mysqladmin status
from your operating system command prompt. If you get a message such as:
command not found under Linux or Mac OS X, or:
'mysqladmin' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
under Windows, the directory containing the MySQL executable programs is not in the system path.
The convenient thing to do is to add the MySQL bin directory to your system path. You can seethe list of directories in your system path by typing echo $PATH

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