myqsl dummy needs help

[Craig White]

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 at 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