Hi Alastair,
Yip somebody pointed me towards the address from the returned mail ;-p. Now
for the answers to your questions:
1. I did create a user and a group for mysql by using:
shell> chown -R root /usr/local/mysql
shell> chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
shell> chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
shell> chown -R root /usr/local/mysql/bin
2. Here is the output for the permissions:
ls -l /usr/local
=====================================
george@linux:~> ls -l /usr/local
total 9163
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 ftp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 games
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Feb 21 10:18 httpd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 include
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Feb 21 10:25 info
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 lib
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 257 Feb 21 08:45 man
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mysql 39 Feb 21 10:35 mysql ->
mysql-max-4.0.1-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686
drwxrwxrwx 13 505 mysql 516 Dec 23 17:45
mysql-max-4.0.1-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9372593 Feb 20 22:48
mysql-max-4.0.1-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 share
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 35 Sep 22 15:08 src
ls -l /usr/local/mysql
=====================================
ls -l /usr/local/mysql
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mysql 39 Feb 21 10:35 /usr/local/mysql ->
mysql-max-4.0.1-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686
ls -l /usr/local/mysql/data
=====================================
ls -l /usr/local/mysql/data
total 13
-rw-r--r-- 1 mysql root 9900 Feb 21 11:34 linux.err
drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 506 Feb 21 10:45 mysql
drwxrwxrwx 2 mysql mysql 35 Dec 23 17:44 test
Thanks,
George
(mysql, query)
On Saturday 23 February 2002 00:50, alastair wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:21:23PM +0200, George Labuschagne wrote:
> > I posted a question but received a message stating the file was to large?
>
> Look at the message. Some idiot's mailbox is over the limit. Anytime I
> post to this list I get 2 return mails bounced from lusers.
>
> With regards to your problem -
>
> 1) don't yopu really want to create a mysel user/group and use that as
> an arg to --user?
>
> 2) what are the exact permissions to your data dir?
>
> ls -l /usr/local
> ls -l /usr/local/mysql
> ls -l /usr/local/mysql/data
>
> Cheers,
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