From: Gerald Clark
Date: June 28 2000 1:54pm
Subject: Re: mysql aborting
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Maribel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install mysql-3.23.17-alpha-pc-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz over redHat 6.2.
> When I run configure, the tables are successfully created, but the safe_mysql daemon dies just after being launched, and I obtain the following message error in de /data/my_host file:
>
> mysql started
> Please, read "Security" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as a root!
> Aborting
>
> However, I am running as a root!
>

You shouldn't be, that is why you are supposed to read the "Security" section of the manual.

>
> Could you give me any advice?  Thanks in advance