Install MySQL from ports on FreeBSD —
I do this on just about every machine I roll out. Needed a handy place to keep the code: cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql51-server/ make install /usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db chown -R mysql /var/db/mysql/ chgrp -R mysql /var/db/mysql/ /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe –user=mysql & /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -uroot password somenewpassword echo ‘mysql_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf