At 12:36 -0800 11/12/02, David Kramer wrote:
>Thats what stumps me, I guess I am, but I have changed the ownership of all
>mysql files to mysql and set the user to mysql in my my.cnf file. By your
In *your* my.cnf file? Which file is that? /etc/my.cnf or something
else? You may be placing the user line in a file that the server isn't
reading.
>comment below I guess I need to change it somewhere else? where?
>
>Thanks,
>
>DK
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:Jeremy@stripped]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:06 PM
>To: David Kramer
>Cc: mysql@stripped
>Subject: Re: Why does safe_mysqld runs as root?
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:06:36PM -0800, David Kramer wrote:
>> Im curious as to why safe_mysqld runs as root? I have changed the
>> owenership and group to mysql and my my.cnf file looks like:
>
>Because you start it as root, maybe?
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