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 2.6 Installing MySQL on NetWare
 ===============================
 
 Porting MySQL to NetWare was an effort spearheaded by Novell.  Novell
 customers should be pleased to note that NetWare 6.5 ships with bundled
 MySQL binaries, complete with an automatic commercial use license for
 all servers running that version of NetWare.
 
 MySQL for NetWare is compiled using a combination of Metrowerks
 CodeWarrior for NetWare and special cross-compilation versions of the
 GNU autotools.
 
 The latest binary packages for NetWare can be obtained at
 `http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/'. See  getting-mysql.
 
 To host MySQL, the NetWare server must meet these requirements:
 
    * The latest Support Pack of NetWare 6.5
      (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/18197/index.html) must be
      installed.
 
    * The system must meet Novell's minimum requirements to run the
      respective version of NetWare.
 
    * MySQL data and the program binaries must be installed on an NSS
      volume; traditional volumes are not supported.
 
 To install MySQL for NetWare, use the following procedure:
 
   1. If you are upgrading from a prior installation, stop the MySQL
      server. This is done from the server console, using the following
      command:
 
           SERVER:  mysqladmin -u root shutdown
 
      * If the MySQL `root' user account has a password, you need
      to invoke `mysqladmin' with the -p option and supply the password
      when prompted.
 
   2. Log on to the target server from a client machine with access to
      the location where you are installing MySQL.
 
   3. Extract the binary package Zip file onto the server. Be sure to
      allow the paths in the Zip file to be used. It is safe to simply
      extract the file to `SYS:\'.
 
      If you are upgrading from a prior installation, you may need to
      copy the data directory (for example, `SYS:MYSQL\DATA'), as well as
      `my.cnf', if you have customized it. You can then delete the old
      copy of MySQL.
 
   4. You might want to rename the directory to something more
      consistent and easy to use. The examples in this manual use
      `SYS:MYSQL' to refer to the installation directory.
 
      Note that MySQL installation on NetWare does not detect if a
      version of MySQL is already installed outside the NetWare release.
      Therefore, if you have installed the latest MySQL version from the
      Web (for example, MySQL 4.1 or later) in `SYS:\MYSQL', you must
      rename the folder before upgrading the NetWare server; otherwise,
      files in `SYS:\MySQL' are overwritten by the MySQL version present
      in NetWare Support Pack.
 
   5. At the server console, add a search path for the directory
      containing the MySQL NLMs. For example:
 
           SERVER:  SEARCH ADD SYS:MYSQL\BIN
 
   6. Initialize the data directory and the grant tables, if necessary,
      by executing `mysql_install_db' at the server console.
 
   7. Start the MySQL server using `mysqld_safe' at the server console.
 
   8. To finish the installation, you should also add the following
      commands to `autoexec.ncf'. For example, if your MySQL
      installation is in `SYS:MYSQL' and you want MySQL to start
      automatically, you could add these lines:
 
           #Starts the MySQL 5.0.x database server
           SEARCH ADD SYS:MYSQL\BIN
           MYSQLD_SAFE
 
      If you are running MySQL on NetWare 6.0, we strongly suggest that
      you use the -skip-external-locking option on the command line:
 
           #Starts the MySQL 5.0.x database server
           SEARCH ADD SYS:MYSQL\BIN
           MYSQLD_SAFE --skip-external-locking
 
      It is also necessary to use `CHECK TABLE' and `REPAIR TABLE'
      instead of `myisamchk', because `myisamchk' makes use of external
      locking.  External locking is known to have problems on NetWare
      6.0; the problem has been eliminated in NetWare 6.5.
 
      `mysqld_safe' on NetWare provides a screen presence. When you
      unload (shut down) the `mysqld_safe' NLM, the screen does not go
      away by default. Instead, it prompts for user input:
 
           *<NLM has terminated; Press any key to close the screen>*
 
      If you want NetWare to close the screen automatically instead, use
      the -autoclose option to `mysqld_safe'. For example:
 
           #Starts the MySQL 5.0.x database server
           SEARCH ADD SYS:MYSQL\BIN
           MYSQLD_SAFE --autoclose
 
      The behavior of `mysqld_safe' on NetWare is described further in
       mysqld-safe.
 
   9. When installing MySQL, either for the first time or upgrading from
      a previous version, download and install the latest and
      appropriate Perl module and PHP extensions for NetWare:
 
         * Perl:
           `http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfcontent/downloads.php/perl/Modules/'
 
         * PHP:
           `http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfcontent/downloads.php/php/Modules/'
 
 If there was an existing installation of MySQL on the NetWare server,
 be sure to check for existing MySQL startup commands in `autoexec.ncf',
 and edit or delete them as necessary.
 
 * The accounts that are listed in the MySQL grant tables
 initially have no passwords.  After starting the server, you should set
 up passwords for them using the instructions in 
 post-installation.
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