Re: mySql bat file

2006-02-05 Thread Chris Wagner
If u never set a user/pass then use root with no password. It is strongly recommented to create a user. And restrict the wide open root. At 07:16 PM 2/5/2006 -0600, Jerry Kassebaum wrote: >C:\Perl\MySql>mysql -u localhost -p < c:\perl\mysql\perl.dbt >Enter password: ** >ERROR 1045 (28000): A

Re: Win32 Environment Variable Read-only?

2006-02-05 Thread Chris Wagner
At 12:50 PM 2/5/2006 +0100, perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com wrote: >and that PATH statements in AUTOEXEC.BAT aren't cumulative under MS DOS, >they simply replace the old path with the new one. Don't know about Win 9x. The are cumulative if u include the variable itself in the new path=

Re: mySql bat file

2006-02-05 Thread Jerry Kassebaum
C:\Perl\MySql>mysql -u localhost -p < c:\perl\mysql\perl.dbt Enter password: ** ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'localhost'@'localhost' (using passwo rd: YES) I don't remember ever setting up a user name. How do I find out what it is? (Assuming that is the problem.) **

Re: Win32 Environment Variable Read-only?

2006-02-05 Thread Hans Schleichert
Chris Wagner wrote: The path variable is set solely, and exclusively, in autoexec.bat. There should be a line in there that says PATH=C:\ That and that alone will be the path value in any command prompt windows u open under 98 and indeed for all of Windows unless it is later modified by the

Re: Win32 Environment Variable Read-only?

2006-02-05 Thread Chris Wagner
At 04:18 AM 2/4/2006 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The original problem was that, after startup, the PATH contains duplicate >pathnames. After debugging the startup sequence >(IO.SYS->MSDOS.SYS->COMMAND.COM->CONFIG.SYS->AUTOEXEC.BAT), the problem >seemed to originate with IO.SYS, which is a h

Re: mySql bat file

2006-02-05 Thread Hans Schleichert
Jerry Kassebaum wrote: I'm trying to learn mySql for use with cgi, so I hope y'all will consider this close enough to a perl question. I have a file called perl.dbt that contains a batch file to a database. (It should list all the books I've read with Perl in the title.) When I go to the com