Fatal error: Please read “Security” section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root

Question

I am not sure how to fix this:

dyn-72-33-214-45:python mona$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld stop
2014-09-06 09:49:04 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DE         


        

Answer 1

Very weird, but I got this error when I made a typo in the my.cnf file.
So it had nothing to do with the user directive not defined or not running as root-user.

My mistake was:

bind=192.168.1.2

instead of

bind-address=192.168.1.2