mysql server problems

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi,

>>
>> So my question is: what have I done wrong installing the mysql5  
>> db? Which actions can I take to get it running?
>
> Not sure what went wrong... Not sure why those files ended up owned  
> by root instead of the mysql user, since you used "sudo -u mysql"  
> that should have worked. If that's the only problem just change the  
> ownership:
>
> sudo chown -R mysql /opt/local/var/db/mysql5

OK, that did the trick.

And also thanks to Bill for the pointer to the long post, I found it  
very useful (starting the daemon w/o launchtrl in the beginning).

Thanks,

Patrick

(And of course thanks to the maintainer of the mysql package)