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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:57:39 +0100
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        John <john@starfire.mn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions? (FIXED!)
Message-ID:  <20100204095739.GA6940@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100201211340.A65012@starfire.mn.org>
References:  <20100131213415.A39592@starfire.mn.org> <hk5lm3$ut6$1@ger.gmane.org> <20100201211340.A65012@starfire.mn.org>

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On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:13:40PM -0600, John typed:
> 
> Good job, Mike!  You nailed it, though what some of the other helpful
> folks wrote had me on the right path, too.  For some reason, the
> binary-configure after the pkg_add left everything owned by 
> root:wheel.  "cd /mysql ; chown -R mysql:mysql ." was the solution.

That's because mysql_install_db which gets called by binary-configure has
/var/db/mysql hardcoded and doesn't read rc.conf.

Ruben



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