[KLUG Members] MySQL problem: File permissions

[Justin Buist]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:44:25PM +0530, Sanjay.Chigurupati@lntinfotech.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> When starting Mysqld_Max , I get the following error:
> 
> Innodb : Operating system error 13 in file operation
> 
> Innodb : the error means the mysqld does not have the access rights to the
> directory
> 
> Innodb: filename : /tmp/data/ibdata1

Your data files are in your /tmp partition?  That doesn't sound right, unless
it's really just a "temp" table that MySQL is making.  I haven't done anything
with Innodb tables, so I can't sya for sure.

Permissions on /tmp should be 1777.

Justin Buist