CentOS - Nov 2009 - Rebuilding MySQL

Hi;
Since I decided to "yum remove openssl", genius that I am (not!), I
managed
to screw up the OS so badly the server co. had to rebuild it for me <:-)
These good people backed everything up very well, so the damage was minimal.
Now I'm trying to rebuild MySQL. I did the "yum install mysql" no
problem.
However...

[root at 13gems old]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
-bash: /etc/init.d/mysqld: No such file or directory

What do? Also, where is the data usually stored? The server co. backed that
up, but I don't know which file it would be.
TIA,
Victor
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try this

yum install mysql-server

--- On Fri, 13/11/09, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com>
Subject: [CentOS] Rebuilding MySQL
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Date: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 2:58 PM

Hi;Since I decided to "yum remove openssl", genius that I am (not!), I
managed to screw up the OS so badly the server co. had to rebuild it for me
<:-) These good people backed everything up very well, so the damage was
minimal. Now I'm trying to rebuild MySQL. I did the "yum install
mysql" no problem. However...

[root at 13gems old]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start-bash: /etc/init.d/mysqld: No such
file or directory
What do? Also, where is the data usually stored? The server co. backed that up,
but I don't know which file it would be.
TIA,Victor

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Victor Subervi wrote:
> What do? Also, where is the data usually stored? The server co. backed 
> that up, but I don't know which file it would be.

With the CentOS version of mysql, its typically in /var/lib/mysql and 
the mysql config file is /etc/my.cnf


after installing the mysql server with yum as ceejay explained, do...

    # service mysqld start
    # chkconfig mysqld on

(the first command starts the server, the second command configures the 
system so the mysql server will automatically start when rebooted)


if the server is properly running, then you'll see at least one process 
if you ...

# ps uww -C mysqld
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
mysql     3193  0.0  1.6 136920 16608 ?        Sl   Sep29   0:20 
/usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql 
--pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-external-locking 
--socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock