Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] 1.3.4 starting mysql

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

I don't have a problem with putting it into the my.cnf.
I know you can do the addition with awk, maybe you can find the code  
somewhere via google.

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org



Quoting Bruce Smith <bw...@ar...>:

>> I'll take a look at mysql to see if it solves that problem too.
>
> No, that didn't solve the problem, but I did figure out the cause.
>
> For some reason "--user=mysql" is not working on the command line in the
> init.d script during boot.
>
> /var/mysql/dns2.err:
> ========================================================================
> 080409 10:38:44 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section  
> of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!
> 080409 10:38:44 [ERROR] Aborting
> ========================================================================
>
> If I add "user = mysql" in /etc/my.cnf (under the [mysqld] section),
> then mysql starts fine upon boot.  Very weird ...
>
> Since we are copying the my.cnf file from the mysql tmp source:
>
>   cp $TMPDIR/usr/share/mysql/my-small.cnf $ETCDIR/etc/my.cnf
>
> I'm not sure the best way to add the line to the file, or IF we should
> add it to the file (since it overrides the config parameters).  Heiko?
>
> I've also tried starting mysqld_safe with "su - mysql -c ..." in the
> init.d script, but I haven't gotten that to work either (parameters are
> not passing to the script).  But then again, hardcoding the user id in
> the init.d script overrides the MYSQL_PARM --user=mysql parameter
> in /etc/sysconfig/config.
>
>  - BS
>
>
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