Steve Mansfield wrote:
Having run MySQL successfully for a while in a WAMP environment, I'm trying to set up on Linux now (and am a real Linux newbie). I'm using the 4.3.1 version that came as an RPM with SuSE 8.2. The problem is - it doesn't work.
Here's where the various elements have installed to:
/usr/bin various mysql progs & scripts, incl mysql mysqladmin mysql_install_db safe_mysqld etc
/usr/sbin mysqld
/var/lib/mysql mysql.sock mysql.log linux-bin.001 etc
when I run mysql_install_db (in /usr/bin), it creates the 'mysql' dir in var/lib/mysql - so the path to the default database files becomes: /var/lib/mysql/mysql/
I'll bet you didn't run mysql_install_db with the --user=mysql option. chown -R mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql should do the trick.
From /usr/bin, I run:safe_mysqld --user=mysql & and get the message Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql but then the daemon shuts down straight away.
When I look in the log file, I find: /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
This is because mysqld can't access /var/lib/mysql/mysql. perror 13 will show you that it is a permissions problem.
It looks as though the mysql_install_db has put the files in the wrong place.
No, just installed them owned by the user running the script. I am assuming 'root'.
Can anyone give me some advice as to how I sort this out...? Thanks.
Steve
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