Unfortunately, when you moved the directories, you forgot to make mysql
the owner
of the new directory.
chown -R mysql /data/mysql
Philip Daggett wrote:
> Hello everyone!!
>
> I am installing the latest rpm for mysql 3-23.41 on a RedHat 7.1 box and
> want the "datadir" to be "/data/mysql/data". In my "/etc/my.cnf" file I
> have the directive:
>
> [mysqld]
> datadir=/data/mysql/data
>
> The installation completes but the daemon won't start. I do the
> mysql_install_db command and the requisite tables are installed in my
> new data directory, the message states that it is starting with the data
> in the new directory, then the server stops and the error message from
> the error log is :
>
> "/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)"
>
> This file in fact exists in the new data directory as well as the
> "/var/lib/mysql" directory.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this correctly??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
>
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