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On Thursday 24 June 2004 12:30, Simon Waters wrote:
Neil Williams wrote: | cp -r /oldvar/* /var cp has some extra options to ensure you preserve more in a copy - I usually use "-rp" as a minimum of this sort of thing. Not sure how much it helps, just one of those habits which I probably thought about the first time I did it.
I just found out why. After I copied /var, MySQL stopped running because cp -r had copied the tables as root.root ownership and MySQL couldn't update the permissions tables or log the activity or write the error report.
It looks not unreasonable to me - but backup first.
But of course! ;-) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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