Re: aggravating failure symptoms and steps to remedy them...

2001-06-20 Thread Gerald Clark
Make sure mysql owns the mysql database directory and files. Peter H. Burris wrote: I'm a sysadmin who created mysql installs for users on linux x86 boxen; I had to create self-contained, architecture-specific packages to comply with our in-house means of handling software in my department.

RE: aggravating failure symptoms and steps to remedy them...

2001-06-19 Thread Guy Smith
Not sure I'll be helpful, but I ran into something similar yesterday. Not exactly sure how I fixed it, but this is what I believe. 1) You should create a virgin data directory per the standard procedures on the production machine (install_db and safe_mysqld). 2) Then, if you have existing