From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 4 09:57:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867351065670 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:57:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (tunnel490.ipv6.xs4all.nl [IPv6:2001:888:10:1ea::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A8F8FC12 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o149vfqU007220; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:57:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o149vdGL007219; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:57:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:57:39 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: John Message-ID: <20100204095739.GA6940@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , John , Michael Powell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100131213415.A39592@starfire.mn.org> <20100201211340.A65012@starfire.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100201211340.A65012@starfire.mn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, J_CHICKENPOX_45, J_CHICKENPOX_55, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:57:44 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions? (FIXED!) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:57:46 -0000 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