kentj wrote:
>
> Platform Suse 7.0,
> AMD 450 KIII+,
> 128MB Ram
>
> Linux on 10 Gig system harddrive
> with 45 Gig additional drive mounted as /dbshare.
>
> I have created a symbolic link in /var/lib of mysql-> /dbshare.
>
> then
>
> RPM -Uhv --force MySQL*-3.23.32-1.i386.rpm to install the files
> from
> MySQL-3.23.32-1.i386.rpm
> MySQL-client-3.23.32-1.i386.rpm
> MySQL-shared-3.23.32-1.i386.rpm
>
> The folders mysql and test are placed in /dbshare and mysql.sock is also
>
> created in /dbshare along with the following
> error message.
>
> 010202 13:31:48 mysqld started
> 010202 13:31:48 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm'
> (errno: 13)
> 010202 13:31:48 mysqld ended
>
> What am I missing to make this work?
Privileges for the mysql user to access these directories.
Who owns /dbshare?
The privileges that count are the privileges of the real directory,
not the symbolic link.
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