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Hi all,

what does the following lines means?

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

Something giving rights to user named mysql? or related with root rights? Please explain in detail.

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I think you get this from the MySQL manual, I suppose? I have seen this before.

The chown command simply changes the owner and group of a list of files. Change of access permission is done using chmod instead.

First command: user root, group mysql
Second command: user mysql, group mysql

-R is recursive. That is, apply this to each and every file and directory underneath.

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