Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-03 Thread doug
Permissions /\ / \ /o o \ V ^ Jeez - thank you; I was looking at all the esoteric stuff whilst the snake was chewing on my leg. Thanks. Sockets are files(sorta). When I copied the file tree /tmp was propagated without global write. Not a probl

Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Stassen
This error usually occurs for one of two reasons: 1. There is already a /tmp/mysql.sock. You've ruled this out. 2. The user mysqld runs as, typically mysql, does not have permission to write to /tmp. Normally, you would want to `chmod 1777 /tmp`. If that's not appropriate for a jail, just ma

Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-03 Thread doug
Thank you for the replies. Jail is a FreeBSD construction that provides a chroot'ed environment that allows you to create another instance of the entire OS. So in my case the physical server running the jails appears to the world like 5 hosts. Each jail has its own IP and is running an independent

Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-03 Thread cvarda
/jail.html []s... Conrado - Original Message - From: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:22 PM Subject: Re: mysql in a jail > Maybe you could explain what a "jail" is. In 20+ ye

Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-03 Thread Alvaro Avello
chrooted ? Rhino wrote: 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,

Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-03 Thread Rhino
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: m