"Kevin H. Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Nils > I was able to stop the mysqld daemon using the kill command. However, > when I tried to start it using mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables, a line > would appear saying: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables > Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql > > with the cursor blinking at the left-hand side of the screen with > apparently nothing going on. The daemon apparently *is* started because > I can ping it and get an "alive" signal. > > However, when I try granting options to root, I get an Error 1047: > unknown command. (in the screen where I start the server, while the > cursor is blinking, there will be no command line prompt so I have to > open another terminal screen. If I type anything where the cursor is > blinking in the first screen, nothing happens). >
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