On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:48:21PM +0000, Peter Fraser wrote: > After installing > > mariadb-server-10.0.25p0v1.tgz > > and > > rcctl enable mysqld > /etc/rc.d/mysqld start > > I got errors > > Directly running > > /usr/local/libexec/mysqld > > gave > > 160908 10:07:09 [Note] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld (mysqld 10.0.25-MariaDB) > starting as process 15703 ... > 160908 10:07:09 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/mysql/test.lower-test > /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/mysql/' (Errcode: 2 "No > such file or directory") > 160908 10:07:09 [ERROR] Aborting > > As a guess, I installed > > mariadb-tests-10.0.25v1.tgz > > which fixed the problem.
Did you read the package readme like pkg_add advised you to do ? -- Antoine
