On Tuesday 02 October 2007 14:12:07 Chris G wrote:
I've tried 'locate addresses' but nothing there looks remotely like a database file (or files).
I suspect that mysql buries all of its databases in one big file somewhere but what's it called?
$ grep datadir /etc/mysql/my.cnf datadir = /var/lib/mysql
Thinking about it maybe what I need to do is boot up the Slackware installation and export the addresses database from mysql, then import it into the Fedora installation. Alternatively maybe I could just copy the whole of the mysql data across over the top of the Fedora files which only have the basics and a root user at the moment.
In my experience, you can just copy MySQL database directories and they work. It may not work for you though.
Cheers, Richard