Mysql: Can’t read dir of (errno: 13)

Published by expire0

Posted on October 30, 2011

Error: ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can’t read dir of ‘./dbname/’ (errno: 13)

check the folder permissions on the db folder under /var/lib/mysql/

Try running chown mysql:mysql dbname/ -R or chown -R 700 dbname

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