Bug 55873

Summary:	start/stop script does not read config file.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Itai Nahshon <itai.nahshon>
Component:	mysql	Assignee:	Patrick Macdonald <patrickm>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Itai Nahshon 2001-11-08 02:04:01 UTC

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Description of problem:
The start/stop script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld has filenames and
directories hard-coded. If I change the datadir in /etc/mycnf
immediately after installation, the initial  databases will be created
in the correct location but they will be owned by root and
the daemon will fail to start.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mysql-3.23.41-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
change datadir in /etc/my.cnf after installation (before first time that
mysqld is started).
Create empty directory (with the same name, owned by mysql).
Start mysql by running '/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start'.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-11-15 00:11:38 UTC

mysql-3.23.44-2 now has the datadir in one location. Changing it is an
unsupported operation, but there's now less to change.