Re: MYSQLD and permissions

2004-12-30 Thread Sasha Pachev
Russ wrote: I just set up mysql and found it running as root. I want to change it to run as mysql. I know I need an entry under [mysqld] in my.cnf. I also know the db directories and files need peermission changes but I'm confused on that. I use SuSE 9.1 and the datadir is: /var/lib/mysql> ls -

MYSQLD and permissions

2004-12-29 Thread Russ
I just set up mysql and found it running as root. I want to change it to run as mysql. I know I need an entry under [mysqld] in my.cnf. I also know the db directories and files need peermission changes but I'm confused on that. I use SuSE 9.1 and the datadir is: /var/lib/mysql> ls -l total 13 d