myqsl dummy needs help
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Feb 17 16:45:16 UTC 2009
Gene Heskett wrote:
> The bottom line would appear to be, if you don't have any databases to save,
> then yum remove *mysql*, updatedb locate and nuke ANYTHING left behind, then
> re-install. If you have a database to save, well, rotsa ruck. Hope you have
> backups.
It's not quite that bad. You can reset by simply removing the contents
of /var/lib/mysql and starting the mysql service. If you have a
database to save, you can use --skip-grant-tables and resetting any
passwords that you require.
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