mysql41-server's rc.d script broken?

[Frank Steinborn]

Scot Hetzel wrote:
> 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

Scot,

it was a permission issue indeed. I had a too strong umask when
portupgrading mysql-server. Sorry for the wind.

Thanks,
Frank