Stangely, it gave me a page of *information* like this: [any idea?
thanks!]
mysqladmin Ver 8.23 Distrib 3.23.49, for redhat-linux-gnu on i386
Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license
Administration program for the mysqld daemon.
Usage: mysqladmin [OPTIONS] command command....
-#, --debug=... Output debug log. Often this is 'd:t:o,filename`
-f, --force Don't ask for confirmation on drop database; with
multiple commands, continue even if an error
occurs
-?, --help Display this help and exit
--character-sets-dir=...
Set the character set directory
-C, --compress Use compression in server/client protocol
-h, --host=# Connect to host
-p, --password[=...] Password to use when connecting to server
If password is not given it's asked from the tty
-P --port=... Port number to use for connection
-i, --sleep=sec Execute commands again and again with a sleep
between
-r, --relative Show difference between current and previous
values
when used with -i. Currently works only with
extended-status
-E, --vertical Print output vertically. Is similar to --relative,
but prints output vertically.
-s, --silent Silently exit if one can't connect to server
-S, --socket=... Socket file to use for connection
-u, --user=# User for login if not current user
-v, --verbose Write more information
-V, --version Output version information and exit
-w, --wait[=retries] Wait and retry if connection is down
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jack Chen, Stein Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Labs
1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724
Tel: 1 516 3676904; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 5 Nov 2002, Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> use: mysqladmin -u root -p
>
> It will prompt you for the password
>
> On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:03, Jack Chen wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > When I ran the follwing command:
> >
> > >$ mysqladmin -u root password PASSWORD
> > mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> > error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'
> >
> > Could you inform me why?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jack
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Jack Chen, Stein Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Labs
> > 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724
> > Tel: 1 516 3676904; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
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