did you run the mysql_install_db script to create the mysql database and
populate it with the bare values necessary for mysql run?
SK
On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 05:57 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote:
> Greetings,
> I downloaded the mysql-max-3.23.42-pc-sco3.2v5.0.6-i386 from MySQL
> website.
> I installed it per the INSTALL-BINARY readme file.
>
> When I try (from /usr/local/mysql) issue:
> bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
>
> It starts and immediately stops mysqld. The .err file contains
>
> 020904 21:41:45 mysqld started
> 020904 21:41:45 bdb:
> /var/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/local/mysql-max-3.23.42-pc-
> sco3.2v5.0.6-i386
> /data/log.0000000001: Permission denied
> 020904 21:41:45 bdb: PANIC: Permission denied
> 020904 21:41:45 Can't init databases
> 020904 21:41:45 mysqld ended
>
> I have changed the ownership/group as per the instructions and I even
> went
> so far as to
> set the permission on the data directory to 777. Still no joy.
>
> Any ideas what step I missed?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Darryl
>
>
>
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