Thanks Gerald!!
That did the trick and everything seems to be running perfectly!
At 01:59 PM 8/30/2001 -0500, Gerald Clark wrote:
>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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