On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:38 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
webmin not available according to yum.
Ok, so I rip it out again, only this time I run a script that searches the
locate database for mysql and deletes all the leftovers before I reinstall.
Would that help? Something is obviously completely fubar.
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turned out that I had to start mysqld before running...
mysqladmin - u root password 'new-password'
after that, it was no problem connecting
# mysqladmin -u root password 'test'
[root@lin-workstation httpd]# mysql -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5
Server version: 5.0.67 Source distribution
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> \q
Bye
webmin (rpm and/or tarball) is available at
http://www.webmin.com
Craig