mysql> create database test; ERROR 1006 (HY000): Can't create database 'test' (errno: 2)

Question

I can\'t create a database after logging in mysql under my root account. Do I have to make an admin account to do so? Also, for some reason, my StartUp file didn\'t install

Answer 1

If you're on macosx and if you've system preference pane installed, that should show a message like

the following directory is not owned by _mysql user - "/usr/local/msyql/data"

Once you know that path you can do the following:

sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/data

sudo chown -R mysql:mysql