Karl, MySQL usually runs under its own user, the "mysql" user, not
root, so it's quite likely MySQL is failing because it can't write
into that directory.
Dan
On 8/21/06, Karl Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have mysql 5 on Fedora Core 4 linux via RPM files. It does not
run. I used the instructions from the info file and was able to populate
the dirctory /var/lib/mysqld/ with the mysql db and some other files
using mysql-install-db. But when I try to start mysqld with mysqld_safe
it errors out saying it can't use the /var/run/mysald/mysqld.pid file.
This is because there is no mysqld.pid in that directory. The directory
has root permissions.
What have I done wrong?
Karl Larsen
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