I'm trying to teach my students how to use MySQL, and have installed it on all the lab machines along with Cygwin. Originally, I had the permissions set wrong and my students couldn't start the server, but I fixed that, and now mysqld& works fine.
Unfortunately, if you then mysql -u root, after a rather short period of time, the program crashes and pops an error message to the screen. The message, which I should have written down but didn't, says that "an assertion has failed in ftell.c" (not sure about the filename, but the gist is right) and "stream != NULL" (that I'm sure of) and then the program dies.
I don't have similar problems when I'm logged in as me (which has Administrator privileges) or the machine Administrator. It must be a permissions problem, but I don't know what I need to give the students to prevent it. The MySQL stuff on the local machines need not be secure, so I've given full access to all users in the entire /cygwin/usr/local/ directory and its subdirectories, which is where I installed MySQL and all the other packages we're going to be playing with.
There are some kids in there who don't need the temptation of being logged
in as an Administrator, and since we're going to be using JDBC later for which
the MySQL server will need to be running almost constantly in the background,
I'd like to get this resolved with the least amount of temptation.
The lab is all Windows XP Professional machines, and the students log into a
domain hosted by a server in another teacher's lab.
Any ideas appreciated, Todd
P.S. If you could cc me any replies, I'd appreciate it, since I read the list on
digest.
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