Are you running the startup script as root, or is it setuid? -Sheeri
On 2/10/06, Rob Lacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wondering if anyone can shed some light on a problem I am experiencing. > > I am running MySQL 4.1 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant > Update 2) machine. > > I have been trying to get the default /etc/init.d/mysqld script to restart the > server but I keep running into the same problems. The MySQL server itself is > running at the moment and has a number of live databases on it. > > 060209 18:40:43 mysqld started > 060209 18:40:43 [Warning] Can't create test > file /var/lib/mysql/thirdeye.lower-test > /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/lib/mysql/' (Errcode: 13) > 060209 18:40:43 [ERROR] Aborting > > 060209 18:40:43 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete > > 060209 18:40:43 mysqld ended > > I can't see where the thirdeye.lower-test file creation is coming into this at > all. Since as far as can see the startup script doesn't seem to call any > script to create test databases. Is this part of mysqld_safe? > > I can also see that /var/lib/mysql is already owned by mysql.mysql with 755 > permissions. Indeed the RedHat startup script makes this so. Therefore the > permissions error seems extremely odd as they seem fine to me. > > I can start the server using the following directly on the command line, which > is what the startup script ultimately runs anyway. > > /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf > --pid-file= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > Can anyone give me something further to go on? > > Many thanks. > > Rob > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
