Hi!
>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ken> Wasn't there something awhile back that was supposed to prevent
Ken> running the daemon as root? When the daemon was started through
Ken> safe_mysqld it would tell you to select a user as root you had to
Ken> use --user=root, this seems to be gone!
Ken> from the manual:
Ken> F.2.26 Changes in release 3.23.15
Ken> To start mysqld as root, you must now use the --user=root option.
Ken> This does not seem to be true (tested on freebsd 3.23.41 etc), the
Ken> reason I have a problem with this is I am getting some files owned by
Ken> root, which is a problem if someone restarts mysql as
Ken> "safe_mysqld&". I am adding the user to my.cnf to avoid this, but it
Ken> does seem to confict with the manual unless I missed a change note to
Ken> remove that feature!
This will be fixed in 3.23.42, which should be available for downloads
tomorrow.
Regards,
Monty
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