I really could of done with reading this forum before I went ahead...
Last week I installed MySQL via rpm via root on my RaQ4. Oops. It appears to have not gone down too well (MySQL works fine though!). What's happening is that now I can't administrate any new accounts I create. Apparently it's a problem with chmod 664 admin/* command.
What this has done is chmode all files/folder with the name admin to this value.
Can anyone help me at all? Surely I can't be the only person who has ever done this?

now I can't administrate any new accounts I create.


What exactly do you mean by this?



The MySQL rpm should not have changed any server persmissions and the control panel does not use MySQL is uses PostgreSQL.


What items can you not administrate?

I couldn't administer any new accounts that I created. If, for example, I clicked on the little spanner icon in the web-based admin then it would tell me that I didn't have permission to do that. I *think* however, that I've fixed it. When I installed MySQL, I installed it on drive root, which (I didn't realise at the time) made the drive full. When new user accounts are created it would appear that a file needs to be written to root containing the permissions for that account. Because root was full, no file permissions were being given. The active monitor of course didn't give me a warning for this, as it seems to think that root and var are the same drive. Anyway, I uninstalled MySQL and reinstalled it (with the pkg this time!) on home, and now it *seems* that eveything is working OK, but I'm still a bit uneasy about the whole thing.