From: Lyn St George (lyn_at_zolotek.net)
Date: Tue 30 Jul 2002 - 16:28:52 BST
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:56:17 -0300 (ADT), James MacLean wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Lyn St George wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Just started getting vservers up and running. Excellent
>> stuff, and most of it works extremely well.
>>
>> MySQL is proving a problem though -
>> "Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied"
>
>Well, I remember having some simple problem getting mysqld to use its
>/tmp/mysql.sock, but I don't see anything special in my vserver.conf or
>my.conf (other than bind-address = 142.227.51.3) unless that commented
>line "# socket = " was what I had used?
Ahh ... "..simple problem" - turns out I couldn't see the wood for the
trees. One directory had the wrong ownership .. arrggghhhh.
Thanks for the hint, and sorry for the trouble.
>Anyhow, we have it running here in a vserver with an active
>/tmp/mysql.sock, so maybe if you strace mysqld when it starts, or try and
>run it directly instead of using safe_mysqld if that is what you are
>using?
>
>Just some loose thoughts,
>JES
>--
>James B. MacLean macleajb_at_ednet.ns.ca
>Department of Education
>Nova Scotia, Canada
>B3M 4B2
>
>
>
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Cheers
Lyn St George
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