Actually, MySQL should be installed by an administrator, but it should be executed by root, which would permit the writing to the tmp dir.
Meaning everytime you kick off MySQL server, you'll need to do so as root. This is usually how I dow it:
cd /usr/local/mysql sudo echo sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
[Note: You'll need to do this on an account with administrator access. When you type "sudo echo", you'll need to type your OS X user password.]
My boy Marc has a slam'in site for MySQL on OS X http://www.entropy.ch. Since MySQL nor Apple have a startup script for MySQL (to kick off the DB at boot), I use the one he's generated - see his site for more details.
Regards, Adam
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Nicos Kekchidis wrote:
Todd and Guys,
Your advice helped me too. I think either Apple screwed up when set up
/tmp directory to be writeable by root only or since MySQL package has bug
or shall be installed ONLY as root user.
- Nicos
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