try to change bin log directory: mysql-bin.index not found (Errcode: 13)

Question

MySQL 5.1.54 Ubuntu 11.04

I\'am try to change bin log directory in my.conf as:

[mysqld]
log_bin=/home/developer/logs/mysql/mysql-bin.log

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Answer 1

mysqld: File '/data/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index' not found (Errcode: 2 - No such file or directory)

I was really stuck in the middle of my MySQL Master - Slave setup. Finally the above was a permission issue, adding the below command solved my issue.

chown -R mysql:mysql /data/log/mysql/