At 03:29 PM 10/23/02 +0300, Egor Egorov wrote:
Lance,Yes. /usr is readonly too. This box is being run as a webserver, so once I setup the world there's no need for it to be writable. All data I need written goes in /var.
Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 3:23:10 AM, you wrote:
LU> I have /tmp symlinked to /var/tmp, and /var is a writable partition, while /
LU> is readonly. When / is readonly mysqld is not able to run.
LU> I've tracked down the problem to the safe_mysqld script. The problem is it
LU> does:
LU> USER_OPTION=""
LU> if test -w /
LU> then
LU> if test "$user" != "root" -o $SET_USER = 1
LU> then
LU> USER_OPTION="--user=$user"
LU> fi
LU> So if / is not writable then my --user argument gets blown away. Yikes.
LU> I believe this is a bug. If anyone knows why it's like this please let me
LU> know. Until then I'll be patching my system so I can continue running...
If I got you right, then /usr is readonly, too. In this case hardly
you can run your FreeBSD box....
-Lance
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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
