permissions dilemma

[Gerard Seibert]

jekillen wrote:

> Hello:
> I have had a problem with installing MySQL 5.0.18 on a FreeBSD v 6.0 
> installation
> where everything seems to compile and install correctly but the server 
> crashes
> immediately on start up with permission to create/write it's .pid file 
> denied.
> Then the screen saver daemon refuses to start in X windows with a 
> permission denied
> error. It originally worked fine. But at some point recently the screen 
> saver quit working.
> When I went to Gnome preferences and tried to set the screen saver I was
> informed that the screen saver daemon wasn't running. When I tried to 
> have it
> start I was presented with the permission denied error and to check the 
> $path
> variable.
> I tried installing MySQL twice, each time with the same problem.
> As I understand it, permissions in Unix are part of the file system 
> format.
> The only possible link between MySQL and the screen saver daemon, 
> possibly, is the
> mysql user needed to run mysqld.
> 
> Could I have a corrupted file system in such a way as to cause 
> permission problems?
> 
> thanks in advance.
> JK

Are you starting MySQL with the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ upon
bootup?

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