At 12:33 AM 8/14/2001 -0400, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>Shu Xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have problem starting MySQL on Redhat7.1. After installed Redhat7.1 which
> > include MySQL rpm installation, I saw the file named mysqld under
> /etc/init.d .
> > I set up symlink to it under /etc/rc3.d and etc/rc5.d. I intended to start
> > MySQL while Linux booting. But I failed to start it. Checking
> > /var/log/mysql.log
> > I saw the follling:
> >
> > 010813 21:03:15 mysqld started
> > 010813 21:03:15 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file:
> > './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
> > 010813 21:03:15 mysqld ended
> >
> > And here is the configuration file
> >
> > /etc/my.cnf
> >
> > [mysqld]
> > datadir=/var/lib/mysql
> > socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> >
> > [mysql.server]
> > user=mysql
> > basedir=/var/lib
> >
> > [safe_mysqld]
> > err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
> > pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
> >
> > I even manual run /etc/init.d/mysqld start and still got the same
> > error. Anybody can point out what wrong here? I do see the host.frm
> > under /var/lib/mysql/mysql. But why it always failed to find it?
>
>
>For some reason (probably a manual "mysql_install_db", which is bad
>and unnecesarry), the database user don't have write access.
>"chown -R mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql" should solve the problem.
Thanks. It works after I did "chown -R mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql".
BTW, if I want to upgrade to new rpm version, what should I do.
The RPM program will take care of upgrading itself?
Shu
>--
>Trond Eivind Glomsrød
>Red Hat, Inc.
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