more mySQL errors

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For those who read my earlier posting about mySQL troubles, I am also
seeing the following error when trying to run the mysql_install_db script: 

/usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/log/mysql.log'
(Errcode: 13)

However, this is what I have in the /var/log dir - as you can see the
mysql.err files are the same and have no problems. I've even tried
chmod'ing mysql.log to 777 with no success.

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          984 Sep 21 10:47 mysql.err
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mysql         637 Sep 21 06:25 mysql.err.1.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mysql          32 Sep 18 06:25 mysql.err.2.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mysql          32 Sep 17 06:25 mysql.err.3.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 21 11:08 mysql.log
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 20 06:25 mysql.log.1
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mysql          32 Sep 18 06:25 mysql.log.3.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mysql          32 Sep 17 06:25 mysql.log.4.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mysql          32 Sep 16 06:25 mysql.log.5.gz
kitty:/var/log#

Any suggestions?

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