Running mysqld_safe without being a root user on Linux

[Fabricio Silva]

Hello,

I'm installing MySQL 4.1.5 gamma on Linux, but I'm not a root user. I'm trying to execute mysqld_safe and I receive the error:

Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/cos/mysql/var
./bin/mysqld_safe: line 302: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied
./bin/mysqld_safe: line 1: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied
STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
tee: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied
041027 11:26:42 mysqld ended
tee: /var/log/mysqld.log: Permission denied


Does anyone can understand what's happening ? And How can I solve this problem??

Thanks a lot!!

Fabrício