Comments on: Install MySQL5 on Mac OSX With Darwin Port https://logs.paulooi.com/install-mysql5-on-mac-osx-with-darwin-port.php Systems Admin, Web Development and etc Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:40:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stress.Media » Blog Archive » Installing MySQL 5 on Mac OSX https://logs.paulooi.com/install-mysql5-on-mac-osx-with-darwin-port.php/comment-page-1#comment-7460 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:35:53 +0000 http://www.takizo.com/blog/2007/03/13/install-mysql5-on-mac-osx-with-darwin-port/#comment-7460 […] to Paul Ooi for this simple installation […]

]]> By: Mitch Coopet https://logs.paulooi.com/install-mysql5-on-mac-osx-with-darwin-port.php/comment-page-1#comment-4284 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:13:56 +0000 http://www.takizo.com/blog/2007/03/13/install-mysql5-on-mac-osx-with-darwin-port/#comment-4284 Hey –

Thanks for the blog posting – I was having issues with trying to find *where* the default my.cnf was located in the mac ports distribution of MySQL. The ‘mysql.server’ start/stop script location was good to know as well!

That said, I’d like to point out that the actual copying of my.cnf should target ‘/opt/local/etc/mysql5/’, not ‘/opt/local/etc/’.

I also ran into a later issue starting up the actual mysqld_safe5 process.

If you see this error in your mysql error log (usually located in /opt/local/var/db/mysql5/.local.err)

070311 18:30:58 [ERROR] Can’t start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied
070311 18:30:58 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock ?

check the ownership on /opt/local/var/run/mysql5 and make sure the owner/group combination is ‘mysql/mysql’. If it isn’t, use ‘sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /opt/local/var/run/mysql5’ to set the ownership properly.

Again – thanks for the helpful post!

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