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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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Subject: Re: mysql-server-4.1.0_1 refuse to start on 5.1
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:10:34AM +0200, Mats Larsson wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> MySQL on my server just refuse to start with the following error, the
> permission is what i se set correctly, anyone got a clue??
> marvin# ls -la /var/db/ | grep mysql
> drw-------   2 mysql     mysql      512 Jul 18 01:03 mysql
What are the perms on /var ?  Is the mysqld definitely running as
'mysql'?
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