Rich wrote:
Hi folks.

Just installed 4.1.15 on OS X (Tiger 10.4) and am having issues.

With permissions, have they changed since 4.1.14?  It seems 4.0.x had the
following permissions on the data folder:

775 for root/wheel

No changes I'm aware of. Is it possible you're simply misremembering? Normally, mysqld runs as user mysql, so the data directory needs to be owned by mysql. Otherwise the server wouldn't be able to access its own data.

Now, what works for me on this new version, is:

770 for mysql/wheel

I'd suggest 750 for mysql:mysql, or even 700. Mysql itself doesn't care about the group or the group permissions. It certainly has no need of a group-write permissions on the data directory. In fact, it won't be happy if some other process modifies its data directory. You should have a good reason to allow group access to the data directory before you grant it.

Also, hopefully not related, if anybody can tell me why my browser on my dev
machine (kayak) can't see kayak.local, I'd buy them a beer or two.  It's
driving me nuts.

This doesn't sound like a mysql question, but I might have an answer. Could you elaborate on what you mean by "my browser on my dev machine (kayak) can't see kayak.local"?

Cheers

Michael

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