Finding where MySQL has installed

[tony harding]

I have a number of virtual servers all running CentOS 5.8 (some 64bit). All up to date with patches.

I log in as root move to / and type “yum install mysql” and it installs mysql-5.0.95-1.el5_7.1.i386. But Webmin does not find it and start it in most cases. There is not a file /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld

I do have 2 servers that do find mysql, but these are not servers I need or want mysql on. I have copied the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld from one of them to the ones that do not work and I get

chown: `mysql:mysql': invalid user
Initializing MySQL database: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 500: /usr/bin/mysql_install_db: No such file or directory
[FAILED]
chown: `mysql:mysql': invalid user


What is the likely reason the install has not put a file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld for which I have write rights?

Any ideas on why some installs work and some do not, given that I am using the same command to the same OS?

All donations gratefully received.

Tony