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 -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-operations Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-operations More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

