[OT] Mysql advice

[landon kelsey]

--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> From: Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>
> Subject: [OT] Mysql advice
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 10:18 AM
> I have a funky problem that I hope someone can help me with.
>  I've got a 
> mysql data running (on FC6, sadly) on a system where the
> root password 
> was changed a few days ago.  Used to, I could just enter
> 'mysql' at root 
> and could get into the mysql command line.
> 
> I went in an changed the root password in mysql to reflect
> the changed 
> root password and edited .my.cnf to the new password, but
> now when I'm 
> in root and type 'mysql' I get this:
> 
> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user
> 'root'@'localhost' (using 
> password: YES)
> 
> I know the root pwd in mysql is correct as our databases
> are working 
> just fine on it.
> 
> The reason I have a problem with this is because I'm
> trying to install a 
> Zenoss RPM I built for FC6 and on startup Zenoss inits
> it's DB and 
> tables, but it can't because it can't login as the
> root user.
> 
> How do I fix this?  I'm sure it's something silly,
> but I've googled 
> until I can't take it any more.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> What happens when you simply enter "mysql" at the bash prompt?
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