I am installing a webapp under tomcat and it requires me to identify
the path to the MySQL directory.
Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was /etc/mysql however
this didn't seem to work.

After doing a search as follows:

# whereis mysql
mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /etc/mysql /usr/X11R6/bin/mysql /usr/bin/X11/
mysql /usr/local/mysql /usr/share/mysql /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz

I really have no idea what the most logical solution would be. All I
do know is that none of these options work.

I can connect to the database and start/stop it via its initscript,
but need to know where in my computer it is installed..

Using 64 bit ubuntu..

== Quote from Ivan (find.ivan@gmail.com)'s article
> I am installing a webapp under tomcat and it requires me to identify
> the path to the MySQL directory.
> Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was /etc/mysql however
> this didn't seem to work.
> After doing a search as follows:
> # whereis mysql
> mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /etc/mysql /usr/X11R6/bin/mysql /usr/bin/X11/
> mysql /usr/local/mysql /usr/share/mysql /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz
> I really have no idea what the most logical solution would be. All I
> do know is that none of these options work.
> I can connect to the database and start/stop it via its initscript,
> but need to know where in my computer it is installed..
> Using 64 bit ubuntu..

this is more an os issue but here you go:
ivan, this is not terribly hard. i believe apt-get has an option that tells you
exactly where it puts all the files it installs. you may want to also run
locate mysql
or
locate mysql5
or
whereis mysql5

some apps install to /opt/local as well.
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