Resending this - it bounced. Has anyone got the magic touch with setting up mysql from scratch?
gentoo, like most other distros, has no instructions. Package installation is really simple on gentoo, but once you have mysql installed, it's still a big boat anchor unless you know how to setup the beast. I've managed to struggle through getting a mysqld started. I'm able to enter some basic mysql commands, but I'm unable to connect even to the standard test database, commands like mysqladmin -u root -p password 'new password' prompt for a password that I don't have, and I'm unable to run the standard run-all-tests test series. I have user mysql (group mysql) and have set all the files in /var/mysql to mysql.mysql. Reading through the pounds of mysql doc, I'm not getting smart very fast. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
