They are currently set to 775...(which I would prefer to have them unreadable by the world and only group and owner)
anyway, I changed them to 777 for testing and still received the same message. On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:13, Sahil Aggarwal wrote: > check file permissions on the database directory > > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:25, Jonathan Villa wrote: > > Ok, I have installed MySQL many times and have never come across this... > > > > when try to run > > > > ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' > > > > I get the following > > > > ./bin/mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'Table 'user' is > > read only' > > > > I've never had this happen, and unfortunately do not know enough about > > read/write perms on tables to try to debug it. > > > > I promise that I'll study up on it, but right now I'm kinda of in > > rush... > > > > I'm using : mysql-standard-4.0.18-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz > > > > thanks! > > > > > > Sahil Aggarwal -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
