Re: [CentOS] new mysql installation, kinda stuck- sorta solved

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 3 February 2012 07:22, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Bob Hoffman writes: When you run into this kind of problems you can just remove or rename /var/lib/mysql and restart the service, it should reset you back to square one. Of course, make a backup first! Sometimes you need to run

Re: [CentOS] new mysql installation, kinda stuck- sorta solved

2012-02-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/07/2012 11:52 AM, Michael Simpson wrote: Sometimes you need to run mysql-db-install as well if you have del'd all of the /var/lib/mysql/ directory the init scripts should take care of that, as long as there is no /var/lib/mysql present on the machine. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 |

Re: [CentOS] new mysql installation, kinda stuck- sorta solved

2012-02-02 Thread Bob Hoffman
after a few yum remove / reinstalls I got this working by doing the following... (not fully set up yet, just the very first step) #yum install mysql mysql-server #service mysqld start #chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on #mysql --user=root -p (this is not the syntax I would have normaly used, but

Re: [CentOS] new mysql installation, kinda stuck- sorta solved

2012-02-02 Thread nux
Bob Hoffman writes: after a few yum remove / reinstalls I got this working by doing the following... (not fully set up yet, just the very first step) #yum install mysql mysql-server #service mysqld start #chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on #mysql --user=root -p First time you log in