On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:32:25PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Sunday 11 February 2007 21:57, Andy Smith wrote: > > How did it go with the changing ownership of files that I > > recommended? > > still no luck. to wit: > > debian:/var/log# chown -Rc mysql:adm /var/log/mysql > > debian:/var/log# /etc/init.d/mysql start > > Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed! > > debian:/var/log# tail /var/log/daemon.log > Feb 25 13:25:37 localhost mysqld[6044]: 070225 13:25:37 InnoDB: Starting > shutdown... We need to see more of the log than this. It has already started to shut down by this point. The answer will almost certainly be in this log file. > and if do mysqld i get: > > debian:/var/log/mysql# mysqld Never run mysqld as root. This is probably how all your files in /var/log/mysql got owned by root in the first place, and you may have to go back and fix that up again now. mysqld is run by the script mysqld_safe which generally knows best. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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