diff --git a/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.sh b/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.sh
index 47253fec572..ac5457beaa6 100644
--- a/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.sh
+++ b/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.sh
@@ -202,7 +202,14 @@ SYST=0
 REALT=0
 FAST_START=""
 MYSQL_TMP_DIR=$MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/tmp
-SLAVE_LOAD_TMPDIR=../../var/tmp #needs to be same length to test logging
+
+# Use a relative path for where the slave will find the dumps
+# generated by "LOAD DATA" on the master. The path is relative
+# since it must have fixed length to test logging
+# i.e otherwise the output from "SHOW MASTER STATUS" will vary
+# with the strlen() of MYSQL_TEST_DIR
+SLAVE_LOAD_TMPDIR=../tmp
+
 RES_SPACE="      "
 MYSQLD_SRC_DIRS="strings mysys include extra regex myisam \
  myisammrg heap sql"
@@ -601,8 +608,10 @@ fi
 [ -d $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/tmp ] || mkdir $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/tmp
 [ -d $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/run ] || mkdir $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/run
 [ -d $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/log ] || mkdir $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/log
-ln -s $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/std_data $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/std_data_ln
- 
+if ! test -L $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/std_data_ln ; then
+  ln -s $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/std_data/ $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/std_data_ln
+fi
+
 if test ${COLUMNS:-0} -lt 80 ; then COLUMNS=80 ; fi
 E=`$EXPR $COLUMNS - 8`
 DASH72=`$ECHO '-------------------------------------------------------'|$CUT -c 1-$E`
diff --git a/mysql-test/t/trigger-grant.test b/mysql-test/t/trigger-grant.test
index e28bf44a2cc..297aa445322 100644
--- a/mysql-test/t/trigger-grant.test
+++ b/mysql-test/t/trigger-grant.test
@@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ CREATE TRIGGER trg5 BEFORE DELETE ON t1
   FOR EACH ROW
     SET @a = 5;
 
---exec egrep -v '^definers=' $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/master-data/mysqltest_db1/t1.TRG > $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/tmp/t1.TRG
---exec echo "definers='' '@' '@abc@def@@' '@hostname' '@abcdef@@@hostname'" >> $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/tmp/t1.TRG
---exec mv $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/tmp/t1.TRG $MYSQL_TEST_DIR/var/master-data/mysqltest_db1/t1.TRG
+--exec egrep -v '^definers=' $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/master-data/mysqltest_db1/t1.TRG > $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/t1.TRG
+--exec echo "definers='' '@' '@abc@def@@' '@hostname' '@abcdef@@@hostname'" >> $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/t1.TRG
+--exec mv $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/t1.TRG $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/master-data/mysqltest_db1/t1.TRG
 
 --echo