Running mysqld in chroot

Please be careful when following the instructions on this page. They are entirely from memory. If you'd like assistance along the way, have a specific reason for wanting to run mysqld, and are knowledgeable enough about linux/WebOS to help me help you work remotely on any issues that arise, I can be reached at cerealklr@<humans.should.remove.this.token>gmail.com. This guide assumes mysqld and its dependencies have already been installed, and that you are operating in a debian based chroot.

• Create the user 'mysql' for the daemon to run as.
  • Create the user itself.

    adduser --system mysql

  • Create a group for the user.

    addgroup --system mysql

  • Add the user to the group.

    adduser mysql mysql

• Create boilerplate my mysql's locking mechanisms.
  • Create its /var/run directory.

    mkdir /var/run/mysqld

  • Create the socket lock file.

    touch /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

  • Give the mysql group ownership of the run directory.

    chown -r root:mysql /var/run/mysqld

  • Ensure corrent permissions on the run directory.

    chmod 775 /var/run/mysqld && chmod 644 /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

• Install the database

  mysql_install_db

If the above does not work, I've forgotten a step. Please email your terminal log to me so I can figure out what I forgot and amend the wiki.