🚀 go-pugleaf

hello

just wanted to know if any helkp was abalable to get mysql started and 
running on linux

i got the following installed:

mysql                   3.23.49-3.asp
mysql-server            3.23.49-3.asp
mysqlclient9            3.23.22-6

perl-DBD-MySQL2 2.0901-1.asp
perl-DBI                1.21-1

now when i type:                ./safe_mysqld &

i get this:             

[root@gruesum bin]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from 
/var/lib/mysql
030917 10:23:30  mysqld ended

and then i have a look at the log file for mysqld:

030917 10:23:29  mysqld started
Cannot initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set.
If you do not want to use transactional InnoDB tables, add a line
skip-innodb
to the [mysqld] section of init parameters in your my.cnf
or my.ini. If you want to use InnoDB tables, add for example,
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:30M
But to get good performance you should adjust for your hardware
the InnoDB startup options listed in section 2 at
http://www.innodb.com/ibman.html
030917 10:23:30  /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' 
(errno: 13)
030917 10:23:30  mysqld ended


does any1 have any idea on on to fix this, i have been on this for 
2 weeks, getting just to errors....

let me know if someone is able to help or if any additional info is need to 
help me 

regards
wilhelm