scripts/mysl_install_db --user=mysql
Now that you have files and directories created under the wrong user,
you
can chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
or whatever the data directory is on your system.
Titus Purdin wrote:
>
> I am installing mysql-3.23.33-dec-osf5.1-alphaev6 on a DEC Alphastation
> running True64 Unix version 5.0A.
>
> Logged in as root, when I run scripts/mysql_install_db as part of the
> installation, it runs as far as
>
> % scripts/mysql_install_db
> Preparing db table
> Preparing host table
> Preparing user table
> Preparing func table
> Preparing tables_priv table
> Preparing columns_priv table
> Installing all prepared tables
>
> and appears to hang. I let it run for several hours and it continued to
> use cycles, but was making no apparent progress. Insights appreciated.
>
> titus sends
>
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