Timed Out Starting Mysqld Daemon when setting up replication

Question

I am now doing the MySQL Master Slave Replication between two of my fedora core 8 servers, on master every time I uncomment log-bin=/var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin and then try to restart the server, it shows the following error:

Cannot Start Mysqld Service..Timed Out Starting Mysqld Daemon

Answer 1

Does the user mysql runs as (usually "mysql") have read-write access to the binary log?