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From: Steven Enderle <freebsd@gizm0.org>
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Are you sure you did run this as root?

Regards

Steven
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Philip Wege wrote:

>Hi
>
>When i run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start i get the following
>error :
>
>touch /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com err: Permission denied 
>chown  /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com cannot
>create  /var/db/mysql/mail.int.diesel-electric.com Permission denied 
>
>Running freebsd 5.3 , mysql installed from ports.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
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