Bug #58659 | minor mysql_install_db manual error | ||
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Submitted: | 2 Dec 2010 14:30 | Modified: | 2 Dec 2010 16:20 |
Reporter: | Andrew Hutchings | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Not a Bug | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Server: Documentation | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
Version: | 5.5.7 | OS: | Any |
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[2 Dec 2010 14:30]
Andrew Hutchings
[2 Dec 2010 15:44]
Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the report. > in MySQL 5.5.7 you are now required to have a 'mysql' system user Where have you found such requirement? See mysql_install_db running in my environment for user ssmirnova: $./scripts/mysql_install_db --basedir=. --datadir=./bug58659 Installing MySQL system tables... OK Filling help tables... OK To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy support-files/mysql.server to the right place for your system PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER ! To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands: ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' ./bin/mysqladmin -u root -h blade12.mysql.com password 'new-password' Alternatively you can run: ./bin/mysql_secure_installation which will also give you the option of removing the test databases and anonymous user created by default. This is strongly recommended for production servers. See the manual for more instructions. You can start the MySQL daemon with: cd . ; ./bin/mysqld_safe & You can test the MySQL daemon with mysql-test-run.pl cd ./mysql-test ; perl mysql-test-run.pl Please report any problems with the ./scripts/mysqlbug script!
[2 Dec 2010 15:51]
Andrew Hutchings
On a Fedora 14 installation: [linuxjedi@linuxjedi-laptop mysql-5.5]$ /home/linuxjedi/Programming/Builds/mysql-5.5.7/scripts/mysql_install_db --datadir=. --basedir=/home/linuxjedi/Programming/Builds/mysql-5.5.7/ chown: invalid user: `mysql' Cannot change ownership of the database directories to the 'mysql' user. Check that you have the necessary permissions and try again. This doesn't happen with 5.1.
[2 Dec 2010 16:08]
Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the feedback. Do you have option user=mysql in the configuration file? Will mysql_install_db --no-defaults work?
[2 Dec 2010 16:13]
Andrew Hutchings
wow, ok, I didn't realise I had a my.cnf lying around in /etc until you just pointed that out. I wonder why 5.1 doesn't read it then. Oh well :) Please close as !Bug then :)
[2 Dec 2010 16:20]
Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the feedback. Closed as "Not a Bug"