On Monday 27 July 2009 18:21:04 Tim Judd wrote:
> After running mysql_install_db, the mysql files are owned by
> root:wheel instead of mysql:mysql
>
> I've noticed that is a missing step in the docs.
> # mysql_install_db
> # chown -R mysql:mysql /var/db/mysql

Or...you can just not do this at all.

> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql start

Will create the auth tables, if they don't exist, with the correct ownerships:

mysql_prestart()
{
        if [ ! -d "${mysql_dbdir}/mysql/." ]; then
                mysql_create_auth_tables || return 1
        fi

-- 
Mel
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