Re: Running MySQL not as 'root'

[Pere Camps <pere@casal.upc.es>]

Uurcus,

>   safe_mysqld --user=nobody &
> Might be better if you use the pseudo-user `mysql':
>   safe_mysqld --user=mysql &

	Doesn't work.

(root) ~ # safe_mysqld --user=mysql
Starting mysqld demon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
mysqld demon ended

> I believe the default Debian config already changes the ownership of MySQL's
> private dirs/files to be owned by the user `mysql'.

	Debian doesn't even create the user 'mysql'. I think I can
remember Red Hat doing that. Of course I've created it for the testing
MySQL. 

	Thanks for your help!

-- p.