Re: Error starting service - Juan Eduardo Moreno - com.mysql.lists.mysql

3 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRe: Error starting service

From	Sent On	Attachments
WebIT	31 Jan 2007 01:52
WebIT	31 Jan 2007 01:58
Juan Eduardo Moreno	31 Jan 2007 03:08

Subject:	Re: Error starting service
From:	Juan Eduardo Moreno (juan...@gmail.com)
Date:	01/31/2007 03:08:12 AM
List:	com.mysql.lists.mysql

$ chown -R mysql:mysql yourdirectoryofmysql

On 1/31/07, WebIT <webm...@webit.co.uk> wrote:

Sorry, probably a really simple thing, but when I try and start mysqld it fails.

[root@linuxserver yum.repos.d]# /sbin/service mysqld start Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon. Starting MySQL: [FAILED]

I've checked the mysqld.log file and it has the following:

070131 09:34:17 mysqld started 070131 9:34:18 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43634 070131 9:34:18 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 13) 070131 9:34:18 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied 070131 09:34:18 mysqld ended

I can't see what permissions it needs that are different. Can anyone assist?

Thanks Nunners