/var/tmp and /tmp? Re: [tlug] mySQL installation problems

[Nguyen Hung Vu <vuhung@example.com>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:

> >From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>
> >
> >020604 13:13:55 Can't start server : Bind on Unix socket: Permission denied
> >020604 13:13:55 Do you already have another mysqld server running on
> >socket: /tmp/mysql.sock ?
> >
> >Maybe /tmp is not writable by mysql?>Maybe /tmp is some
> >bizarre filesystem that doesn't support creating socket specials?
> 
> Thanks Stephen! Mentionning file permissions and file systems pointed me in 
> the right direction. When I moved my file systems from ext3 to XFS I didn't 
> pay attention to the permissions on the the mountpoints (/tmp in 
> particular). I have now set the perms to 1777 and mysql is happy.
> 
> Speaking of which what *are* the "standard" file permissions for /tmp? is 
> 1777 reasonable?

Yes, /tmp need to be world writable-readable.

FYI,

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.15.html <- this one
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.15.html

> 
> Jc
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