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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