Michael Widenius wrote: > > The problem is probably that your tar program doesn't use user-names > but user-ids, in which case the files may be owned by 'anyone. > What output do you get for: > > ldd bin/mysqld > [root@thinkpad]# ls -l /bin/mysqld -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1832912 Sep 21 20:59 /bin/mysqld [root@thinkpad]# ldd /bin/mysqld statically linked (ELF) [root@thinkpad]# > bin/mysqld --help To see what values a running MySQL server is using, type 'mysqladmin variables' instead of 'mysqld --help'. The default values (after parsing the command line arguments) are: basedir: /usr/local/mysql/ datadir: /usr/local/mysql/var/ tmpdir: /tmp/ language: /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/english/ pid file: /usr/local/mysql/var/thinkpad.pid TCP port: 3306 Unix socket: /tmp/mysql.sock system locking is not in use max_user_connections current value: 0 max_write_lock_count current value: 4294967295 myisam_sort_buffer_size current value: 8388608 myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size current value: 256 myisam_max_sort_file_size current value: 2047 net_buffer_length current value: 16384 net_retry_count current value: 10 net_read_timeout current value: 30 net_write_timeout current value: 60 open_files_limit current value: 0 query_buffer_size current value: 0 record_buffer current value: 131072 record_rnd_buffer current value: 0 slave_net_timeout current value: 3600 slow_launch_time current value: 2 sort_buffer current value: 2097144 table_cache current value: 64 thread_concurrency current value: 10 thread_cache_size current value: 0 tmp_table_size current value: 33554432 thread_stack current value: 131072 wait_timeout current value: 28800 delayed_insert_timeout current value: 300 delayed_insert_limit current value: 100 delayed_queue_size current value: 1000 flush_time current value: 0 interactive_timeout current value: 28800 join_buffer_size current value: 131072 key_buffer_size current value: 16773120 long_query_time current value: 10 lower_case_table_names current value: 0 max_allowed_packet current value: 1047552 max_binlog_cache_size current value: 4294967295 max_binlog_size current value: 1073741824 max_connections current value: 100 max_connect_errors current value: 10 max_delayed_threads current value: 20 max_heap_table_size current value: 16777216 max_join_size current value: 4294967295 max_sort_length current value: 1024 max_tmp_tables current value: 32 max_user_connections current value: 0 max_write_lock_count current value: 4294967295 myisam_sort_buffer_size current value: 8388608 myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size current value: 256 myisam_max_sort_file_size current value: 2047 net_buffer_length current value: 16384 net_retry_count current value: 10 net_read_timeout current value: 30 net_write_timeout current value: 60 open_files_limit current value: 0 query_buffer_size current value: 0 record_buffer current value: 131072 record_rnd_buffer current value: 0 slave_net_timeout current value: 3600 slow_launch_time current value: 2 sort_buffer current value: 2097144 table_cache current value: 64 thread_concurrency current value: 10 thread_cache_size current value: 0 tmp_table_size current value: 33554432 thread_stack current value: 131072 wait_timeout current value: 28800 Thank you Bob T --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php