Hy group

I compiled & installed MySQL 5.0.45 from the source code on openSUSE
10.2. I did preform all the basic commands like mentioned in the
MySQL Reference Manual (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/quick-
install.html) but when I try to start MySQL by running "bin/
mysqld_safe --user=mysql &" nothing seems to happen. In the command
line, following lines are shown:
[1] 3698
lamp::usr/local/src # nohup: ignoring input an redirecting stderr to
stdout
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var

Then there is one blank line and nothing happens.

I tried to run the command without the option --user=mysql (so running
as root) but it just gave the same result.
I did changed the folder owners according to the reference manual.

in /var/lib/ there isn't a folder mysql, neither in /etc/init.d
Trying to start MySQL by typing "/etc/init.d/mysql start" result into
following error: "No such file or directory"

It seems to me that MySQL isn't correctly installed, although nor "./
configure", "make" nor "make install" gave any errors.

Does anybody has got an idea, or a location where I can find some log
files in order to get more detailed information?

Kind Regards
Sven