[BNM] noob question: mysql data directory

[David Andrew]

Your right

Thanks Stephen

2008/12/2 James Lawrie <stwange at gmail.com>:
> If you want to get into that directory you could do:
> $ sudo su
> # cd
>
> make sure you exit from root afterwards to avoid error :)
> Why didn't you thank Stephen for the ls answer?
>
> 2008/12/1 David Andrew <david.andrew at gmail.com>
>
>> JCG shines a guiding light once again!
>>
>> Thanks mister
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/1 Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org>:
>> > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Andrew <david.andrew at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi list
>> >>
>> >> I want to view the contents of my mysql data dir, so I type:
>> >>
>> >> david-andrews-computer:/usr/local/mysql test$ sudo cd data
>> >>
>> >> which returns:
>> >>
>> >> david-andrews-computer:/usr/local/mysql test$
>> >>
>> >> I have stopped the mysql server. Why can't I get into my data dir?
>> >
>> > Because you'd be in a directory you don't have permissions to be in,
>> > after the sudo cd exits.
>> >
>> > from the '/usr/local/mysql test' folder, running
>> >
>> > sudo ls -l data
>> >
>> > will show you what's in there
>> >
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