Comments on: Securing your MySQL install

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:46:20 +0000

@songperk, the line has been removed as since MySQL 5.5 the structure changed, removing test was there to remove unnecessary clutter but did not structurally improved security. By the way for the Lion version of this please look at: http://diymacserver.com/mamp/lion/

By: songperk

songperk — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:18:21 +0000

Same issue. 5.5 on osx lion.

ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database (can’t rmdir ‘./test/’, errno: 17)

Any updates? Thanks.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:56:33 +0000

@Brad, since 5.5 this does not work anymore. Sorry. i’m currently rewriting the instructions for 5.5

By: Brad Rice

Brad Rice — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:51:01 +0000

When I try to drop database test;

I get this error:

ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database (can’t rmdir ‘./test/’, errno: 17)

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:19:21 +0000

@David, did you install the binary version before you compiled it. It would have taken care of setting the correct permissions on all directories.

By: David

David — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:30:39 +0000

I am unable to start MySQL. When I try to manually start it (via terminal) with /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe, I get this output.

100822 00:28:32 mysqld_safe Logging to ‘/usr/local/mysql/var/Mac-Mini-Server.local.err’.
touch: /usr/local/mysql/var/Mac-Mini-Server.local.err: No such file or directory
chown: /usr/local/mysql/var/Mac-Mini-Server.local.err: No such file or directory
100822 00:28:32 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe: line 100: /usr/local/mysql/var/Mac-Mini-Server.local.err: No such file or directory
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe: line 137: /usr/local/mysql/var/Mac-Mini-Server.local.err: No such file or directory
100822 00:28:32 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/mysql/var/Mac-Mini-Server.local.pid ended
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe: line 100: /usr/local/mysql/var/Mac-Mini-Server.local.err: No such file or directory

Could someone explain why this would be happening and how I could fix it?

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:10:28 +0000

Checking now, thanks again Richard your extremely helpful.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:06:49 +0000

@Roberto, please follow the instructions as documented here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html#resetting-permissions-unix

By: Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:02:03 +0000

I changed the root password and name and now I cant login, keeps telling me access denied. I cant even login using root. Is their a way to reset back to do over??? I tried reinstalling and that didnt work. Thanks.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:36:48 +0000

Thanks Jeffrey I will correct this!