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On my Mavericks Mac Pro, I installed mariadb and mariadb-server.
They seemed successful. But when i try to run the commands they
suggest, I get:<br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">jarmac-2:~ jar$ sudo -u
_mysql /opt/local/lib/mariadb/bin/mysql_install_db<br>
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
Installing MariaDB/MySQL system tables in
'/opt/local/var/db/mariadb' ...<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
OK<br>
Filling help tables...<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd:
cannot access parent directories: Permission denied<br>
OK</font><br>
<br>
and<br>
<br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">jarmac-2:~ jar$ cd
'/opt/local' ; /opt/local/lib/mariadb/bin/mysqld_safe
--datadir='/opt/local/var/db/mariadb'<br>
140808 16:44:50 mysqld_safe unknown option
'--err-log=/Users/jar/mysql/data/mysqld.log'<br>
140808 16:44:50 mysqld_safe Logging to
'/opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err'.<br>
touch: /opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: Permission
denied<br>
chmod: /opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: No such file
or directory<br>
140808 16:44:50 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases
from /opt/local/var/db/mariadb<br>
/opt/local/lib/mariadb/bin/mysqld_safe: line 138:
/opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: Permission denied<br>
/opt/local/lib/mariadb/bin/mysqld_safe: line 182:
/opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: Permission denied<br>
touch: /opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: Permission
denied<br>
chown: /opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: No such file
or directory<br>
chmod: /opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: No such file
or directory<br>
140808 16:44:50 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file
/Users/jar/mysql/data/mysqld.pid ended<br>
/opt/local/lib/mariadb/bin/mysqld_safe: line 138:
/opt/local/var/db/mariadb/jarmac-2.local.err: Permission denied</font><br>
What am I doing wrong?<br>
And where do I place the startup files?<br>
<br>
<br>
-- <br>
James A. Rome
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jamesrome.net">http://jamesrome.net</a>
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