Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:10:24 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> To: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions dilemma Message-ID: <4452BD00.8000205@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <11e8c67c0d0f09b07ea6bc52e9447407@prodigy.net> References: <2b990b51e5f83c3958da8b4e29645f95@prodigy.net> <20060428203449.B6EC.GERARD@seibercom.net> <11e8c67c0d0f09b07ea6bc52e9447407@prodigy.net>
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jekillen wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >> jekillen wrote: >> >>> Hello: >>> I have had a problem with installing MySQL 5.0.18 on a FreeBSD v 6.0 >>> installation >>> where everything seems to compile and install correctly but the server >>> crashes >>> immediately on start up with permission to create/write it's .pid file >>> denied. >>> Then the screen saver daemon refuses to start in X windows with a >>> permission denied >>> error. It originally worked fine. But at some point recently the screen >>> saver quit working. >>> When I went to Gnome preferences and tried to set the screen saver I >>> was >>> informed that the screen saver daemon wasn't running. When I tried to >>> have it >>> start I was presented with the permission denied error and to check the >>> $path >>> variable. >>> I tried installing MySQL twice, each time with the same problem. >>> As I understand it, permissions in Unix are part of the file system >>> format. >>> The only possible link between MySQL and the screen saver daemon, >>> possibly, is the >>> mysql user needed to run mysqld. >>> >>> Could I have a corrupted file system in such a way as to cause >>> permission problems? >>> >>> thanks in advance. >>> JK >> >> Are you starting MySQL with the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ upon >> bootup? >> >> -- >> Gerard Seibert >> gerard@seibercom.net > Boy that was fast, I just posted this message a moment ago... > No I was just testing it using the mysqld_safe --user=mysql & approach. Hi, As you don't mention it explicitly, did you run "mysql_install_db --user=mysql" ? I know the first time I installed MySQL I neglected to do so. As well, do you also have a mysql user and a mysql group defined? Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- duane@greenmeadow.ca
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