Sorry for typo: what I tried was;
chown -R _mysql:_mysql /Users/me/Databases/mysql/data
> On 13 Sep2022, at 3:15 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Whenever macOS updates to a new version, it destroys the custom settings for
> my user directory and subdirectories that are required for mysql to access
> its datadir, which is in a custom location.
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> In the past, I’ve used the command
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> chown +R _mysql:_mysql /Users/me/Databases/mysql/data
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> as part of the steps to make a custom mysql datadir accessible to mysql.
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> But since I just upgraded to Monterey 12.6, I’m getting the error message:
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> chown: +R: illegal user name
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> What to do now?
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> Note that permission changes such as
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> chmod +a "_mysql allow search" /Users/me/Databases
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> (and ditto for /Users/me and /Users/me/Databases/mysql) are OK.
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> Murray Eisenberg [email protected]
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