I just upgraded my Slackware Linux box from MySQL 4.0 to 5.0 and I'm
getting a strange error when I try to start the service. The error log
says:

/usr/libexec/mysqld: File '/var/log/mysql.000001' not found (Errcode:
13)
060324 15:05:19 [ERROR] Could not use /var/log/mysql for logging (error
13). Turning logging off for the whole duration of the MySQL server
process. To turn it on again: fix the cause, shutdown the MySQL server
and restart it.
060324 15:05:19 [ERROR] Aborting

If I create that file (/var/log/mysql.000001) then the error just says
"/var/log/mysql.000002" and then "/var/log/mysql.000003" and so on.
What would be causing something like this, and how would I fix it?


Regards,
David P. Donahue
ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu
http://www.cyber0ne.com