- Original Message -
From: Peter Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: O'K Web Design [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: July 30, 2003 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: Running mysql (complete newbie)
Hi Mike,
Hmmm. Don't think so. /tmp is drwxrwxrwt
Cheers
Peter
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 18:43, O'K Web Design wrote:
Hi
Hi guys and gals,
I'm a complete newbie to mysql, so please bear with me.
Today I downloaded mysql4.0 binary distribution and installed it on my
SuSE Linux 8.1 box. I've unzipped it and put it in:
/usr/local/mysql-standard-4.0.14-pc-linux-i686
and I've created a symbolic link to give me
. Mike
- Original Message -
From: Peter Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: msql general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: July 30, 2003 12:50 AM
Subject: Running mysql (complete newbie)
Hi guys and gals,
I'm a complete newbie to mysql, so please bear with me.
Today I
: Running mysql (complete newbie)
Hi Mike,
Hmmm. Don't think so. /tmp is drwxrwxrwt
Cheers
Peter
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 18:43, O'K Web Design wrote:
Hi Peter
It sounds like you have a directory permission problem. I had one
just
this week. Just make sure that mysql
Hi Sanya
Don't appear to have a file called my.cnf anywhere on my system. Should
I have? If so how should it be formatted, and what should be in it?
Peter
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 18:42, Sanya Shaik wrote:
You need to set the sock in usr/local/mysql/data/my.cnf to /tmp/mysql.sock
Hi guys/gals, the problem is directory perms but not in the tmp. And yes
you should have my.cnf in your /etc (can change this location but cant
remember where), and there are sample cnf files in the support-files
directory of mysql.
As far as the directory issue goes simply run:
chown -R mysql
Ha! Nice one Nick.
Changed the user to mysql, but there's no mysql group, so changed the
group to daemon (sounded right). Anyway mysql is now up and running.
Just out of interest, the owner of all the directories in
/usr/local/mysql is '503'. Grepping /etc/passwd for '503' returns
nothing.
