It was my mistake typing “+R”, which explains the error message. Changing to chown -R instead did finally work once I saw what I had done.
Sorry for the trouble. > On 15 Sep2022, at 12:29 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2022, at 14:36, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >> On 13 Sep2022, at 3:15 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>> >>> In the past, I’ve used the command >>> >>> chown +R _mysql:_mysql /Users/me/Databases/mysql/data >>> >>> as part of the steps to make a custom mysql datadir accessible to mysql. >>> >>> But since I just upgraded to Monterey 12.6, I’m getting the error message: >>> >>> chown: +R: illegal user name >> >> Sorry for typo: what I tried was; >> >> chown -R _mysql:_mysql /Users/me/Databases/mysql/data > > And the error message you got back from that was "chown: +R: illegal user > name"? > --- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mobile (413)-427-5334 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Rockville, MD 20850-6667
