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Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 06:29:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Vincent TOUGAIT <viny@gcu-squad.org>
Cc: FREEBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Mysql323-server install question
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Vincent TOUGAIT wrote:

> mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/db/mysql': File exists
> mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/db/mysql/mysql': File exists
> mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/db/mysql/test': File exists
What happens when you just
# mkdir /var/db/mysql
and then
# make install
?

Regards,

Uli.


>
> 	The files/directories don't exist and of course when mysql try to
> test the dbs, it fails =)
>
> 	Why does it tell me that files already exist ? Why can't it create
> them ?
>
> 	I've thought about a flags problem on /var but it doesn't seem to
> have any :
>
> drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  -     512 May 27 14:09 var
>
> 	(by the way, to have the expected display with ls -lo, ie having it
> display the flags of files, I must run /bin/ls and not just ls. Does it
> have something to do with the fact that I'm running zsh ?)
>
> 	And I'm running at level -1 of kernel.securelevel (FreeBSD
> 4.5-RELEASE with an up-to-date release=cvs port tree)
>
> 	Thanks for any answers
>
> 	Vincent
>
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