MySQL is actually started using a little program called mysqld_safe, which monitor MySQL and restarts it if it "crashes". You first need to kill the mysqld_safe process. I assume you have no data so the easiest route is to just kill it and reinstall. You may have deleted the admin user. In cases like this you would normally relaunch MySQL without the grant tables, which would allow open access (generally a bad thing).

If you are serious about using MySQL (which is good), pick up a book. I learned by reading MySQL by Paul DuBois. It's an excellent book which will walk you through nicely. You can search the archives for other good books, but this one is recommend a lot. Learning how to interact with MySQL through the command line will really help you a lot, especially when there are problems.

On Jul 21, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Andy Hilton wrote:

Sorry for appearing like a dummy but I am not a Unix person !

I installed MySQL on an OSX client – stumbling around the administrator app – all I wanted to do was to create a database – I inadvertently deleted what looked like a blank user – and now I cannot connect to MySQL at all – ok I will rephrase, the MySQL Administrator app connects but doesn’t allow me to
do or see anything so is pretty near useless....

Things I don’t know how to do :
How do I kill the MySQL process ? Every time I force quit the process in
Activity monitor it just starts a new one....
Do I have to remove the MySQL installation in order to re-install and get my
blank user back ?
If I have to remove it – what/where/how do I do that ?

Are there any decent documented sites that can help me to administer MySQL
under OSX ? So far I have found diddly squat of any real use...

Many thanks
Andy Hilton


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