Maybe you could explain what a "jail" is. In 20+ years doing systems work I've never heard that term mean anything but "a place where criminals are locked up".
Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:28 AM Subject: mysql in a jail > > I have a system running FreeBSD 4.9 four jails. MySQL is running in two of the > jails and I am trying to add it to a 3rd jail. Starting the server gets the > message: > > 040302 19:34:15 mysql started > 040302 19:34:15 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied > 040302 19:34:15 Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: > /tmp/mysql.sock ? > 040302 19:34:15 Aborting > 040302 19:34:15 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown Complete > 040302 19:34:15 mysqld ended > > The new jail was created by copying the file tree from a jail that had the > desired configuration and then doing clean-up as required. In response to the > error I tried configuring mysqld to use a different port and socket file. That > did not fix the problem. I had forgotten the other two mysql's are using port > 3306 and /tmp/mysql.sock. > > I next removed mysql and its dependencies and reinstalled mysql-server-4.0.16 > using pkg_add. I am still getting the same error. At this point I think it is a > jail problem with something I missed in clean-up but I do not know where to look > next. > > Having done all this, I recalled in installing the 2nd MySQL jail, it was > necessary to remove and reinstall mysql. In that instance the re-installation > solved the problem. > > Thanks for any ideas. > > _____ > Douglas Denault > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 301-469-8766 > Fax: 301-469-0601 > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
