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Re: [oi] [homebrew] Re: /usr/local and /usr/local/mysql permissions issue

From:

Kimball

Date:

2010-10-13 @ 23:55

that's the step I'm trying to undo, in the case of /usr/local/mysql.  I had
followed the directions in chowning to mysql previously.  I reinstalled
mysql in any case.

Kimball

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Andre Arko <homebrew@andrearko.com> wrote:

> They weren't ever owned by root. Probably they were owned by the 'mysql'
> user.
>
> — Andre
>
> On Oct 13, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Kimball wrote:
>
> Shame on me for mindlessly following the homebrew instructions at
> http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/homebrew-os-xs-missing-package-manager/.
>  Then I noticed the comments that were critical about chown'ing /usr/local
> to a user account as well as losing access to mysql tables, and sure enough,
> now my rails project can't find gems and I can't access my development
> databases anymore.  I chown'ed /usr/local and /usr/local/mysql back to root,
> but the problems persist.  Can anyone help me set my system right again?
>  Here is some hopefully useful output:
>
> http://gist.github.com/624774
>
> Gratefully,
>
> Kimball
>
>
>


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On 14 Oct 2010, at 00:55, Kimball wrote:

> that's the step I'm trying to undo, in the case of /usr/local/mysql.  I 
had followed the directions in chowning to mysql previously.  I 
reinstalled mysql in any case.

So did you have mysql installed from somewhere other than Homebrew?

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