Another developer told me his data folder had root/wheel as user/group. Also 775 as the permissions.
Just changed it to 700 and it works. As for the kayak issue, it's Safari. It doesn't want to see the web sharing on the very same machine it's on. Very temperamental. Cheers Michael Stassen: > No changes I'm aware of. Is it possible you're simply misremembering? > Normally, mysqld runs as user mysql, so the data directory needs to be owned > by > mysql. Otherwise the server wouldn't be able to access its own data. > >> Now, what works for me on this new version, is: >> >> 770 for mysql/wheel > > I'd suggest 750 for mysql:mysql, or even 700. Mysql itself doesn't care about > the group or the group permissions. It certainly has no need of a group-write > permissions on the data directory. In fact, it won't be happy if some other > process modifies its data directory. You should have a good reason to allow > group access to the data directory before you grant it. > >> Also, hopefully not related, if anybody can tell me why my browser on my dev >> machine (kayak) can't see kayak.local, I'd buy them a beer or two. It's >> driving me nuts. > > This doesn't sound like a mysql question, but I might have an answer. Could > you > elaborate on what you mean by "my browser on my dev machine (kayak) can't see > kayak.local"? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
