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After struggling for hours with trying to get MySQL running on three different machines, I came across this life-saving forum thread which made me look at the most obvious culprit, file permissions of /tmp.

My bug report to Apple:

BIG PROBLEM - /tmp has wrong permissions

I think the 10.3.7 update is responsible for this. On my G5, before AND after repairing disk permissions:

$ ls -l / |grep tmp
drwx—— 9 john staff 306 5 Feb 16:30 tmp/

On a pismo, again before AND after repairing disk permissions:

$ ls -l / |grep tmp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 29 Jan 20:54 tmp -> private/tmp

/tmp should of course be rwxrwxrwx

Thanks,
John

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