On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:45:04AM -0500, Cedric Veilleux wrote: > Hi, > > I am running mysql 3.23.53 on FreeBSD 4.4. I compiled mysql from source with > the following configure command: > > --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var/db/mysql > > Every now and then, the server seems to change its database directory to > /var/tmp. When it happens, "show databases" gives me the content of the > /var/tmp directory! > > I had this problem for more than a year now, and I upgraded every time a new > version was available hoping it would fix it. I noticed that the higher to > load on the mysql daemon, the more likely it is to happen... So there is > probably a race condition or something. > > The manual says mysql is less reliable on FreeBSD because of the poor > multi-threading implementation. I didn't expect I'd have to restard it every > day (!!)
You need to compile MySQL with the "-DHAVE_BROKEN_REALPATH" option. This is fixed in the 4.0 and 4.1 configuration process for MySQL, I think. I don't recall seeing the change go into the 3.23 tree yet. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 16 days, processed 496,842,634 queries (339/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
