On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:01, jekillen wrote: > Hello folks; > I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. > I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD > manual > or Absolute FreeBSD. > The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid > file. > I believe it is the way I used adduser to create it and I don't know > what > I did wrong. I assigned it the class bin and disabled the password and > assigned none as the home dir. > To remove mystery it is MySQL I am trying to get running. > This is the error file entry: > starting server errors: > 060417 17:38:49 [ERROR] /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: Can't > create/write to file '/usr/local/mysql/var/AMD64-939.<domain>.pid' > (Errcode: 13) > 060417 17:38:49 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: > Permission denied > 060417 17:38:49 mysqld ended
How did you install mysql? That path doesn't look like the default port install. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't that be in /var/db/mysql? Anyway, user and group should be mysql - check your folder permissions to make sure mysql can write there. Beech --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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