MySql5 install on SnowLeopard, problems starting

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 10/10/10 22:34 , Scott Haneda wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> Note that on Leopard and later, the user is technically _mysql (not mysql).
> 
> Is there a technote on this? Is this an Apple convention or do other nix's share the underscore uname duplication? Maybe there is a non Apple doc on this behavior?

The prefix-_ convention for non-user accounts comes from the *BSDs; Darwin
is largely kept in sync with FreeBSD.

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