Hi ED,
The famous error 13 ;-)
Linux permissions not set correctly.
The problem is the user account you specified for the mysql files & directory.
If you look at your database directories f.e /var/lib/mysql do:
ls -al >> look at the user acounts is uses
baby-bumble-bee:/var/lib/mysql # ls -al
I recently installed Slackware 9.0 from ISO onto a box and cannot get
mysql to run on it. It gives the error:
mysql started
/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: '/mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
mysql ended
So I though maybe the initial setup hadn't been done so I ran
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db an
