Hi Bryan, Kindly create user "mysql" belonging to group "mysql" (instead of mysqld)
Regards, Ritu bryan wrote: > The log says mysqld doesn't have permission to the directory ibdata1: > > 080426 13:53:48 mysqld started > 080426 13:53:48 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. > InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to > InnoDB: the directory. > InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1 > InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'. > InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. > 080426 13:53:48 mysqld ended > > > I created a mysqld group and added the mysqld user to that group as well as > ran the following: > > chown -R mysqld:mysqld /var/mysql > chmod -R 770 /var/mysql > > I verified the mysqld user in the passwd file: > > #cat /etc/passwd > .... > mysqld:x:103:101::/home/mysqld:/bin/sh > > I must be missing something here as mysqld should have permissions for the > directory. I even tried giving everyone rights with chmod -R 777 /var/mysql > and it still gives the error. > > Any thoughts or reasons for this would be really helpful, thanks > _______________________________________________ > databases-discuss mailing list > databases-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/databases-discuss >
