Check the my.cnf files for a redirrected data directory.
Make sure that mysql has read and execute permission
on ALL directories leading up to the mysql data directory, and that
mysql is the owner of its data directory and all subdirectories and files.
EX:
chown -R mysql /var/log/mysql
or whatever it is.
Mysql simply does not have permission to read the file ( if it exists ),
regardless of
what you now believe.
Bill Leonard wrote:
>on 8/6/02 5:58 AM, Victoria Reznichenko at victoria.reznichenko@stripped
>wrote:
>
>>BL> And in the .err log I get:
>>
>>BL> mysql started
>>BL> /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
>>BL> mysql ended
>>
>>BL> Still trying to figure out what happened... I will have to wipe the drive
>>BL> soon and start from scratch and I am trying to avoid that...!
>>
>>$ perror 13
>>Error code 13: Permission denied
>>
>>MySQL must be owner of MySQL data dir.
>>
>
>This unfortunately is already the case... Owner is mysql, group is admin.
>And that goes for all of the database directories themselves as well.
>
>Oh well... Back to square 1! Thanks for the help.
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