Keep Getting Error When Installing MySQL

[Anon]

I had MySQL working on my server running Red Hat 7.2 until I upgraded Apache to 1.3.26 today. I deleted the files in the /usr/local/mysql directory and whenever I run the configure it comes up with an error and I can't figure out how to get it to work. Here is what I've entered and the error that I'm getting after it runs for about 3 minutes:

[root@username mysql-3.23.51]# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-low-memory
checking for fchmod... yes
checking for getpass... yes
checking for getpassphrase... no
checking for initgroups... yes
checking for mlockall... yes
checking for fseeko... yes
checking for dlopen... yes
checking for dlerror... yes
checking style of gethost* routines... other
checking style of gethostname_r routines... glibc2
checking 3 argument to gethostname_r routines... char
checking "args to pthread_getspecific"... POSIX
checking "args to pthread_mutex_init"... POSIX
checking "args to readdir_r"... POSIX
checking "style of sigwait"... POSIX
checking "for pthread_attr_setscope"... yes
checking "can netinet files be included"... "yes"
checking "character sets"... default: latin1; compiled in: latin1
checking for BerkeleyDB... no
Not using Berkeley DB
checking for Innodb... Not using Innodb
checking for Gemini DB... Not using Gemini DB
configure: creating ./config.status
mkdir: cannot create directory `/tmp/cs19229-3476': No such file or directory
: cannot create a temporary directory in /tmp

Any ideas?

John

[ranam]

Well the script can't seem to create a directory. Since you're logged in as a root this should happen as you have full permission. are you able to create a directory in /tmp in console?

[Anon]

I had deleted the tmp directory which was keeping MySQL from creating the subdirectory. I added the directory and gave it write permissions and it fixed the problem.

John