Whenever macOS updates to a new version, it destroys the custom settings for my
user directory and subdirectories that are required for mysql to access its
datadir, which is in a custom location.
In the past, I’ve used the command
chown +R _mysql:_mysql /Users/me/Databases/mysql/data
as part of the steps to make a custom mysql datadir accessible to mysql.
But since I just upgraded to Monterey 12.6, I’m getting the error message:
chown: +R: illegal user name
What to do now?
Note that permission changes such as
chmod +a "_mysql allow search" /Users/me/Databases
(and ditto for /Users/me and /Users/me/Databases/mysql) are OK.
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Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com
