On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Me Myself and I
<[email protected]> wrote:
> /var/log/syslog contains:
>
> Oct 20 16:31:05 localhost systemd[1]: Unit drizzled.service entered failed
> state.
> Oct 20 16:31:05 localhost systemd[1]: Startup finished in 961ms 953us
> (kernel) + 4s 8

Ok, these are not from drizzled itself. (version 7.1 will output
things to syslog too)

> /usr/sbin
> [root@localhost sbin]# ./drizzled
> Aborting:"drizzled cannot be run as root, use --user to start drizzled up as
> another user". Abort was called from drizzled/drizzled.cc:543 in
> check_user()
> [root@localhost sbin]# exit

Ah, the error message confused you: You should be logged in as root and then do
# ./drizzled --user=drizzle

The value of user parameter should be the user who owns files under
/var/lib/drizzle

> Why oh why can't I run this awesome database!  Is it something stupid like
> directory permissions or file permissions?
> What should I try?

Try the above and we will learn more. We still don't know why init.d
script fails, but let's take one step at a time.

> By the way, I have a copy of drizzle-jdbc-1.1.jar, the Java connectivity
> driver.  How far along is it?  Can I successfully load a Driver object, log
> in, use Java PreparedStatement and ResultSet to execute and read queries?

Different topic, I suggest you send a new email with new subject about this.

Also, please use drizzle-discuss mailing list, that is the main list.
This list isn't actually used much and doesn't have that many
subscribers.

henrik

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