mariadb install failed

[James Rome]

The server still does not start:

/opt/local/lib/mariadb-10.1/bin/mysqld_safe: line 138:
/opt/local/var/db/mariadb-10.1/jarmac-2.local.err: Permission denied
jarmac-2:local jar$ sudo /opt/local/lib/mariadb-10.1/bin/mysqld_safe
--datadir='/opt/local/var/db/mariadb-10.1'
140809 08:27:19 mysqld_safe Logging to
'/opt/local/var/db/mariadb-10.1/jarmac-2.local.err'.
140809 08:27:19 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from
/opt/local/var/db/mariadb-10.1
140809 08:27:19 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file
/Users/jar/mysql/data/mysqld.pid ended

jarmac-2:local jar$ ls  /Users/jar/mysql/data/mysqld.pid
ls: /Users/jar/mysql/data/mysqld.pid: No such file or directory

jarmac-2:local jar$ ls /tmp
NETGEARGenieDaemon.pid    launch-lvNc6z        launchd-2350.ZqaGRy   
oobelib.log
aprboTZUl        launch-p9tXNI        launchd-2574.4XikGj    par-jar
launch-6nMu7R        launch-zr3qrZ        launchd-2639.QTnGJA   
parallels_crash_dumps
launch-bUMBFm        launchd-1572.md5xYw    launchd-608.Vb1bse   
tmp23873374

Why is it using my account to store things?

James A. Rome
jamesrome at gmail.com
http://jamesrome.net

On 8/8/14 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2014, at 3:55 PM, James Rome wrote:
>> On my Mavericks Mac Pro, I installed mariadb and mariadb-server. They seemed successful. But when i try to run the commands they suggest, I get:
> As a side note, these are outdated versions of mariadb. The current stable version is available in the ports mariadb-10.0 and mariadb-10.0-server. The current development version is available in the ports mariadb-10.1 and mariadb-10.1-server. Consider using either of those instead of mariadb and mariadb-server.
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