Permissions /\
/ \
/o o \
V
^
Jeez - thank you; I was looking at all the esoteric stuff whilst the snake was
chewing on my leg. Thanks. Sockets are files(sorta). When I copied the file tree
/tmp was propagated without global write. Not a problem in the system I used as
a template because /tmp is a UFS there.
Doug
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Michael Stassen wrote:
> This error usually occurs for one of two reasons:
>
> 1. There is already a /tmp/mysql.sock. You've ruled this out.
>
> 2. The user mysqld runs as, typically mysql, does not have permission to
> write to /tmp. Normally, you would want to `chmod 1777 /tmp`. If
> that's not appropriate for a jail, just make sure that mysqld can write
> there.
>
> As far as I know, installing (or reinstalling) mysql should have no
> effect on /tmp permissions, so I would guess that the problem you had
> previously with the second jail was different.
>
> If it turns out that /tmp permissions are not the problem, take a look
> at the hostname.err (where hostname is the name of the machine from this
> jail's point of view) file in the data directory. If the contents don't
> make sense to you, post them in a follow-up message.
>
> Michael
>
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