Did you also check directory permissions? What system are you using? Chuck http://68.43.100.7:81/aa8vs
========================================== "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." - Bertran Russell -----Original Message----- From: sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:51 PM To: MySQL List Subject: Re: Can not write to a file in /home/..... I executed the following statement: SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/home/medic/outfile.txt' FROM fool; I get the error meassge " Can't create/write to file '/home/medic/outfile.txt' (Errcode:13) " I followed the solutions from the manual "A.3.3 Problems with File Permissions" and still have a problem. I created a my.cnf and when I put in the line: set-varibale = UMASK=0777 in the {mysqld} section - the deamon will not start. I created a script as follows: UMASK=0777 export UMASK UMASK_DIR=0777 export UMASK_DIR etc/bin/safe_mysqld & Can anyone help sam, --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
