<...>
> You can get more info about an error message with perror:
>
> ~: perror 13
> OS error code 13: Permission denied
>
> As you guessed, a permissions error. Apparently, the user running mysqld
> (usually user mysql) does not have access rights to /var/lib/mysql/. Most
> likely, user mysql is not set as the owner of /var/lib/mysql/, in which
> case you need to
>
> chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/
>
> as root.
Bingo! That worked and I learned *two* things. :-)
thanks
tim
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