Ken Menzel writes:
> Wasn't there something awhile back that was supposed to prevent
> running the daemon as root? When the daemon was started through
> safe_mysqld it would tell you to select a user as root you had to
> use --user=root, this seems to be gone!
>
> from the manual:
> F.2.26 Changes in release 3.23.15
> To start mysqld as root, you must now use the --user=root option.
>
> This does not seem to be true (tested on freebsd 3.23.41 etc), the
> reason I have a problem with this is I am getting some files owned by
> root, which is a problem if someone restarts mysql as
> "safe_mysqld&". I am adding the user to my.cnf to avoid this, but it
> does seem to confict with the manual unless I missed a change note to
> remove that feature!
>
>
> Ken
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Seems that you are right !!
We would either have to change a code or docs ....
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