[Fink-beginners] need help getting MySQL started

[David Orlovich]

Hello Fink beginners and helpers. I've installed MySQL using Fink, and am having a problem getting the MySQL Daemon started because of permissions. The output is pasted below. I've been following the instructions on the screen after the initial databases were created, but I also changed the owner of /sw/var to mysql as per the suggestion in MacOSX Unleashed (although they say change the owner of /usr/local/var instead since that's where they installed it). I'm not sure if chown -R -ing the whole of /sw/var was the right thing to do ... Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, David.

p.s. one other thing, if I change the name of my computer, will I need to re-run mysql_install_db?

[David-Orlovichs-Computer:/sw] orlovich% /sw/bin/safe_mysqld &
[1] 4176
[David-Orlovichs-Computer:/sw] orlovich% touch: /sw/var/mysql/David-Orlovichs-Computer.local..err: Permission denied
chown: /sw/var/mysql/David-Orlovichs-Computer.local..err: Permission denied
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /sw/var/mysql
/sw/bin/safe_mysqld: /sw/var/mysql/David-Orlovichs-Computer.local..err: Permission denied
rm: /sw/var/mysql/David-Orlovichs-Computer.local..pid: Permission denied
/sw/bin/safe_mysqld: /sw/var/mysql/David-Orlovichs-Computer.local..err: Permission denied
tee: /sw/var/mysql/David-Orlovichs-Computer.local..err: Permission denied
030111 10:21:52 mysqld ended
tee: /sw/var/mysql/David-Orlovichs-Computer.local..err: Permission denied

[David-Orlovichs-Computer:/sw] orlovich%
[1] Exit 1 /sw/bin/safe_mysqld



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