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Bum permissions on /tmp and MySQL startup

Just killed an hour on getting MySQL running on my G5 at home. Thankfully, I found this blog post. Actually, I’m surprised that the bad permissions on /tmp haven’t bit me before now. I didn’t have this problem on two other machines I put MySQL on, but both of them had clean installs of Tiger, and this G5 was upgraded — so I guess it’s an old Panther bug that hung around.

Friday, March 31st, 2006 at 8:45 am and is filed under Mac OS X. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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