nevermind that webmaster stuff...wrong 'send as' setting...
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 12:59, HPGM Webmaster wrote:
> 1.- did you create the data dir as root?
> > chown mysql.mysql -R /var/dir-where-you-install
> Well, the data dir was created when I untarred mysql...
> > 2.- who owns the mysql data dir and it's parent dirs?
> drwxrwxr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Mar 3 21:07 data
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> and the parent dir is owned by root, should I try making the
> /usr/local/mysql dir owned by mysql?
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> > ls -lka /var/dir-where-you-installed
> > 3.- try using mysql client
> Never used this before, I will try...
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> here is an ls -la from /usr/local/mysql
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> [root@localhost mysql]# ls -la /usr/local/mysql
> total 92
> drwxrwx--- 14 root mysql 4096 Mar 3 02:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 3 02:27 ..
> drwxrwx--- 2 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 bin
> -rwxrwx--- 1 root mysql 773 Feb 10 12:59 configure
> -rwxrwx--- 1 root mysql 19106 Feb 10 12:50 COPYING
> drwxrwxr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Mar 3 21:07 data
> drwxrwx--- 2 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 docs
> drwxrwx--- 2 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 include
> -rwxrwx--- 1 root mysql 7633 Feb 10 12:50 INSTALL-BINARY
> drwxrwx--- 2 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 lib
> drwxrwx--- 3 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 man
> drwxrwx--- 6 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 mysql-test
> -rwxrwx--- 1 root mysql 1937 Feb 10 12:15 README
> drwxrwx--- 2 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 scripts
> drwxrwx--- 3 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 share
> drwxrwx--- 5 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 sql-bench
> drwxrwx--- 2 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 support-files
> drwxrwx--- 2 root mysql 4096 Feb 10 12:59 tests
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> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 07:27, Victor Medina wrote:
> > A few things to try:
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> > 1.- did you create the data dir as root?
> > chown mysql.mysql -R /var/dir-where-you-install
> > 2.- who owns the mysql data dir and it's parent dirs?
> > ls -lka /var/dir-where-you-installed
> > 3.- try using mysql client
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> > Best Regards
> > On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:55, Jonathan Villa wrote:
> > > Ok, I have installed MySQL many times and have never come across this...
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> > > when try to run
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> > > ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
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> > > I get the following
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> > > ./bin/mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'Table 'user' is
> > > read only'
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> > > I've never had this happen, and unfortunately do not know enough about
> > > read/write perms on tables to try to debug it.
> > >
> > > I promise that I'll study up on it, but right now I'm kinda of in
> > > rush...
> > >
> > > I'm using : mysql-standard-4.0.18-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz
> > >
> > > thanks!
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