> I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. > I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. > The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid file. > I believe it is the way I used adduser to create it and I don't know what I did wrong. I assigned it the class bin and disabled the password and assigned none as the home dir. > To remove mystery it is MySQL I am trying to get running.
it's a bit unclear what you're trying to do, mysql already runs as a "non-privileged" user normally if you want to restrict access to your mysql-database then you can just create a user in mysql and give that user certain permissions (root in mysql != root in FreeBSD) if you really want to run mysql-server as a new user you probably need to change mysql-config settings or put that user in the group mysql (and adjust permissions for mysql-files and dirs accordingly) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
