That was the trick. Running the following two commands in sequence set the right permissions:
sudo scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
sudo bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
Hi there,
I installed Apache, PHP and MySQL following the instructions on http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071030153912813. Apache and PHP came up just fine.
I then followed the instructions at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/unix-post-installation.html for the...