At 8:47 AM -0400 9/4/01, Bruce W. Perry wrote:
>hello,
>
>  I have installed MySQL 3.23 on Mac OS X 10.0.4 . I now have to change the
>ownership of the newly installed MySQL databases ( /usr/local/var ) to the
>"mysql" user that I have created in NetInfo Manager , in order to start up
>the database system. But my system does not have the chown utility installed
>(for security reasons, I guess). Where can I get this utility so I can
>install it on my system? Is there any other way to change the ownership of
>these files (from "root")? any other suggestions? Thanks very much for your
>help.
>
>Bruce Perry
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Are you sure it's not installed?  Maybe you just don't have /usr/sbin
in your PATH setting (chown is /usr/sbin/chown).


-- 
Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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