Database Startup

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb George Lemos um 17:02:

> I am making progress, I have phpadmin in now, but had to yum php-mysql in
> order to get it started. H
> 
> However I think something got muddled yesterday while I was wrestling with
> mysql trying to get the root password added for the localhost and host. No
> password I normally use for box testing seems to be working. What's the
> recommended solution to reset the DB root level passwords? Do I need to
> reinstall one or all of the packages?
> 
> Thank you,
> George

The documentation on www.mysql.com has instructions what is needed to do
if you forgot your MySQL root password.

If you still have no data / databases created you can wipe
/var/lib/mysql/* and do a new start of the mysqld start script. This
will create the initial empty databases again.

Alexander

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