Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:38:03 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions dilemma Message-ID: <20060428203449.B6EC.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <2b990b51e5f83c3958da8b4e29645f95@prodigy.net> References: <2b990b51e5f83c3958da8b4e29645f95@prodigy.net>
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jekillen wrote:
> Hello:
> I have had a problem with installing MySQL 5.0.18 on a FreeBSD v 6.0
> installation
> where everything seems to compile and install correctly but the server
> crashes
> immediately on start up with permission to create/write it's .pid file
> denied.
> Then the screen saver daemon refuses to start in X windows with a
> permission denied
> error. It originally worked fine. But at some point recently the screen
> saver quit working.
> When I went to Gnome preferences and tried to set the screen saver I was
> informed that the screen saver daemon wasn't running. When I tried to
> have it
> start I was presented with the permission denied error and to check the
> $path
> variable.
> I tried installing MySQL twice, each time with the same problem.
> As I understand it, permissions in Unix are part of the file system
> format.
> The only possible link between MySQL and the screen saver daemon,
> possibly, is the
> mysql user needed to run mysqld.
>
> Could I have a corrupted file system in such a way as to cause
> permission problems?
>
> thanks in advance.
> JK
Are you starting MySQL with the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ upon
bootup?
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