At 9:58 -0600 4/7/04, Kevin Jaques wrote:
A couple days ago, I posted a careful message of my troubles, but no
reply to date. Remember, after I tried to assign a password for the
root user, it broke.
Since then, I discovered that Mac OS X refuses to let me create a
user account called 'mysql'. Apparently that account comes
preconfigured since the latest version (Panther). But since I had an
account by that name before I installed Panther, but then deleted in
a misguided attempt to fix my problems, I was in a boat. I created a
new dummy account, then used NetInfoManager to rename everything.
Then I used Terminal to rename the home directory, and SharePoints
to add the new user to the mysql account and delete the dummy group.
Then I used Terminal to change the group of all the stuff in the new
home directory.
So now it has quit complaining about the chown command, but it still
quits immediately when I try to run mysqld_safe, as follows:
[iMac-dv:/usr/local/mysql] kj% cd /usr/local/mysql
[iMac-dv:/usr/local/mysql] kj% sudo bin/mysqld_safe
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
040407 09:55:25 mysqld ended
[iMac-dv:/usr/local/mysql] kj%
What does the error log say? (It'll probably be in /usr/local/mysql/data,
and should be the file with a suffix of .err)
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