Hola, I made 4 changes and it worked. changed 3306 and mysql.sock for both client and server, now it works fine. Those two options killed so much of my time. I followed the instructions line by line and there was never any mention of changing the default my.cnf file.
Gracias, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Victor Medina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:37 AM To: Chris Sanchez; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mysql error grant tables, help Hi! try to look at your my.cnf you haven't config it correctly! At 05:54 p.m. 12/03/2004, Chris Sanchez wrote: get this when i run scripts/mysql_install_db. also tried mysqld --skip-grant and got the same thing. how do i fix? mysql-standard-4.0.18-sun-solaris2.8-sparc binary on SunOS ipdev1 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10. ----8< Saludos, ____________________________________________________________________ _ _ _ __ __ ___ ___ _ | | ___ _ _ ___ | | <_>._ _ _ _ __ | \ \ _ _ / __>| . || | _| |<_> || | |<_> || |_ | || ' || | |\ \/| || | |\__ \| | || |_ \__/<___||__/ <___||___||_||_|_|`___|/\_\|_|_|_|`_. |<___/`___\|___| <___' Victor Medina M Java - Linux - MySQL [EMAIL PROTECTED] geek by nature, linux by choice ____________________________________________________________________