mysql41-server's rc.d script broken?

[Scot Hetzel]

On 12/19/06, Frank Steinborn <steinex at nognu.de> wrote:
> If I run mysqld_safe directly mysqld starts as expected. I had a look
> into the script but could not find the source of the problem. I'm not
> sure if that's a misconfiguration just on my site - anyone else seeing
> this?
>
> OK - I just edited the script so that it won't send mysqld_safe's
> output to /dev/null and got the following:
>
> Starting mysql.
> Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/db/mysql
> STOPPING server from pid file /var/db/mysql/shodan.nognu.de.pid
> 061220 04:05:50  mysqld ended
>
> /var/db/mysql/shodan.nognu.de.err says this:
>
> 061220 04:04:03  mysqld started
> 061220  4:04:03 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile
> '/usr/local/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys'
> 061220  4:04:03 [ERROR] Aborting
>
> Strange. /usr/local/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys is there and mysqld
> just starts fine if I start it manually. Any clues are welcome.
>
When you run the script, mysqld_safe is run as the mysql user.

What happens when you run mysqld_safe as the mysql user?

Does the mysql user have read access to this file (including sub
directories leading to the file)?

Scot
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