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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:47:16 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        O Senhor <osenhor@uol.com.br>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mysql
Message-ID:  <3D135894.90003@potentialtech.com>
References:  <1024677020.32742.7.camel@ws-tor-004>

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O Senhor wrote:
>    Hello,
>    My problem is with mysql and FreeBSD... I believe that are not off
> topic.
>    When i mount the "/" partition read-only, i can't start the mysql
> daemon. I have three partitions read-only: "/" /usr and /usr/local. But
> the only one that cause problems is "/". Then, i guess that the program
> is trying write some temporary file in /boot /root /modules /sbin /bin
> "/" or another dir. This is terrible! Somebody knows about that problem?

Last I checked, the MySQL port/package put its databases in /var/db/mysql.
Is /var part of your / partition?  What about /tmp?  I believe MySQL needs
to create a /tmp/mysql.sock file when it starts.
Have you checked to see what errors MySQL reports when it fails to start?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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