Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-09 Thread Kevin Jaques
That didn't work but it led to something that did. It turned out that the owning group didn't have full authorization in the data folder. So, I did a brute force approach. I made mysql the owner of everything, instead of root, made mysql the group of everything (which it already was), then made

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-08 Thread Paul DuBois
At 8:29 -0600 4/8/04, Kevin Jaques wrote: Thanks for the reply. I feel it is getting me somewhere, but I'm not there yet. The log said, regarding the most recent attempt: 040407 09:55:24 mysqld started 040407 9:55:25 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: See h

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread Scott Haneda
I think the biggest issue I see come up here is that somewhere people get the idea to add a mysql user to OS X, this causes a lot of trouble for everyone, as there already is such a user, and you don't need to do anything in regards to that. On OS X 10.3, simply run the installer, set the root pas

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread Victor Medina
If apple continues to bundle MySQL with panther and does not give any kind of support for it's users, they should at least donate a few machines to us, so we can play with it and give some kind of support! YEAP I'll keep dreaming! =) jeje -- |..

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread dan
I'm not sure if this is part of your problem or not Kevin, seems you have a few issues, so I'll cover them one at at time... getting the permissions and ownership correct, this is cut/paste from the INSTALL docs, pretty much cut/pasteable to your sytem (errr): groupadd mysql useradd -g mysql mysq

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Page - EMF Systems Ltd
Many thanks Alec. I need to wait a couple of hours before I can block access to the DB by messing with the indexes, but I will try out what you suggest. What you say makes sense as probably over 99% of the values in that first col will be 'y'. I will post my progress. I am also looking into recodin

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread Alec . Cawley
"Jim Page - EMF Systems Ltd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/04/2004 17:14:57: > PS I am answering loads of questions in the hope that the power of my Karma > will force someone to answer mine ... (join problem:indexed columns being > ignored) My first reaction would be to turn your index

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:58 -0600 4/7/04, Kevin Jaques wrote: A couple days ago, I posted a careful message of my troubles, but no reply to date. Remember, after I tried to assign a password for the root user, it broke. Since then, I discovered that Mac OS X refuses to let me create a user account called 'mysql'.

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread Jim Page - EMF Systems Ltd
I know nothing about Macs specifically. However under linux ... My first question would be 'what's in the error log'? Often in /var/lib/mysql/.err Next, have you run the mysql_install_db script to create default databases and permissions? Next, have you checked that use mysql has permission to acce

Re: Hey what, no pity for a new user?

2004-04-07 Thread dan orlic
i wouldn't say there is no pity, but there is probably a very low concentration of mysql people running on macos. Just my two cents... dan Kevin Jaques wrote: A couple days ago, I posted a careful message of my troubles, but no reply to date. Remember, after I tried to assign a password for t

Re: hey

2002-08-03 Thread Bhavin Vyas
Are you using InnoDB type tables? The default table type is MyIsam which does not support foreign keys. Regards, Bhavin. - Original Message - From: "muad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 5:52 AM Subject: hey > hope its okey for me too ask you

Re: hey folks!

2002-01-07 Thread Brian Reichert
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:52:10PM -0800, Viorel C wrote: > I'm a newbie in DB administration. Could somebody tell me what do I need to > start a web-based project for book listing, mail lists etc, all retrieved > from a database updated by LAN users and listed on a web page? Go for www.freshmeat

RE: hey folks!

2002-01-07 Thread Duncan Hill
> -Original Message- > From: Viorel C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 07 January 2002 23:52 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: hey folks! > > > I'm a newbie in DB administration. Could somebody tell me what do I need > to start a web-based project for book listing, mail lists etc, all

RE: hey folks!

2002-01-07 Thread Simon Green
Me... I would use MySQL (as it if very fast, and never brakes) I also like PHP as it just fits in with MySQL so well! Simon -Original Message- From: Viorel C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 January 2002 23:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: hey folks! I'm a newbie in DB administrati