This was the answer for my installaton on Panther, as well. Scott's instructions provide those extra commands you might need. I thought I had followed the standard installation instructions VERY carefully, and yet I got stuck. This got me through . . . .
on 4/14/04 12:26 AM, Daniel Lahey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just thought I'd share my experience with MySQL under Panther. I think > the critical thing that got me going was that the /usr/local/mysql/data > directory was owned by root instead of mysql. I changed that (chown > mysql /usr/local/mysql/data) and everything seems to be a) Hunky b) > Dory, thanks to Scott Haneda. (See below...) > > From Scott: > > For some reason I get a lot of email from users on Mac OS X that can not > install MySql. I have written a step by step in hopes it will help. I > really did little more than copy the notes on the MySql site, but alas, > it > seems some people are not following those correctly. > > Hopefully, people can point others to this link > <http://newgeo.com/mysql/> > > Cheers, > > Dan (aka Zippy Appletush) > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
