Question

Am trying to perform a select into outfile, am having following errors

My request:

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/local/home/datawords/upload/inscrit_newsletter_us.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM newsletter_us;

Error:

ERROR 1 (HY000): Can’t create/write to file ‘/local/home/datawords/upload/exports/inscrit_newsletter_us.csv’ (Errcode: 2)

The exports directory have permission set to 0777.

Answer 1

You can generate this file in /tmp folder if it has root permissions

For ex select * into OUTFILE /tmp/inscrit_newsletter_us.csv

If you dont have root permission for /tmp folder means please follow the below steps

sudo chown root:root /tmp
sudo chmod 1777 /tmp
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld restart