### I stole some of the code from the mysql installation scripts. 

#export prefix=/usr/local/mysql-4.1.5
export lock_file=var/lock/subsys/mysql

cd $prefix

mkdir -p $prefix/var/log
chown -R mysql $prefix/var

touch $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log
chown mysql:mysql $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log 
chmod 0640 $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log

export datadir=$prefix/data
mkdir -p $datadir
chown -R mysql:mysql $datadir
chmod 0755 $datadir

echo "Starting mysql....."
nohup $prefix/libexec/mysqld  --basedir=$prefix --datadir=$prefix/data --user=mysql --pid-file=$prefix/data/mysql.pid --skip-locking --socket=$prefix/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock -t $prefix/tmp >> $prefix/var/log/mysqld.log 2>&1 &

if test -w $prefix/var/lock/subsys/
then
  touch $prefix/$lock_file
fi

echo "Done."