[Klug-general] Apache, PHP and MySQL security (Fairly long post!)

[Keith Edmunds]

On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:38:50 +0000
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:

> chrootuid /chroot/mysql \
> mysql /chroot/mysql/usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld &
> 
> I get the following in /var/log/syslog:
> 
> /chroot/mysql/usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld: No such file or
> directory

I don't know, but I suspect the problem is that chrootuid will set up
the chroot before executing the command, so the full line should be:

	chrootuid /chroot/mysql \
	mysql /usr/local/mysql/libexec/mysqld &

Keith

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Keith Edmunds

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