It looks like the message you get after running safe_mysqld is a permissions/ownership problem. You generally need to create a user, call it mysql, and assign the owner and group of the mysql tree to that user. Set the permissions of all objects in the tree to be "rwx" for owner, and remove all permissions for group and world (this would be 700 or "rwx------"). The documentation on the mysql.com website is very complete and easily navigable. Hope this helps... -- Rich Caloggero MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info. and Computing "Coffee should be as black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: 01 February, 2003 1:21 PM Subject: re: mysql When I try running the safe_mysql script I get the following: -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" root at h14me:/home/alex_snow# safe_mysqld Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 030201 13:14:50 mysqld ended rroot at h14me:/home/alex_snow# safe_mysqld Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 030201 13:14:50 mysqld ended r
