Data Node Install/Configuration

[J Ives]

Looking at the documentation for installation of the data node, it seems only three files are needed, and an empty directory structure /usr/local/mysql/data

It isn't clear whether a mysql user and group is needed and what user/group would own the mysql and mysql/data directories, the executable files, and my.cnf

From the documentation:

shell> cp bin/ndbd /usr/local/bin/ndbd
shell> cp bin/ndbmtd /usr/local/bin/ndbmtd

You can safely delete the directory created by unpacking the downloaded archive in /var/tmp

shell> cd /usr/local/bin
shell> chmod +x ndb*

and of course, the my.cnf file that goes in /etc

Obviously more is required, such as creating /usr/local/mysql and /usr/local/mysql/data

Version is a new install with
mysql-cluster-gpl-7.5.4-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64