Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
Data directory path mention in cnf is of old mysql. Make a fresh data directory, configure it in configuration file and execute mysqlinstall_db, I don't understand the sentence about the data directory path mention. The my.cnf file is at /etc/my.cnf . It doesn't have any data directory

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.07.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Martin Mueller: Sorry for the off-list reply. It was an oversight. That said, the instructions for resetting a forgotten root password have a section for Windows and a section for Unix. The Unix section begins as follows: 1. Log on to your system as the Unix

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.07.2015 um 16:23 schrieb Martin Mueller: Dear Mr Harald, I've learned some things from your responses and even more from shawn green's. You might learn a lot from him about patience and courtesy, which make life on a technical forum a lot easier. You clearly know a lot about technical

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.07.2015 um 14:45 schrieb Martin Mueller: Data directory path mention in cnf is of old mysql. Make a fresh data directory, configure it in configuration file and execute mysqlinstall_db, I don't understand the sentence about the data directory path mention. The my.cnf file is at

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.07.2015 um 15:40 schrieb shawn l.green: 1. Log on to your system as the Unix user that the MySQL server runs as (for example, mysql). Everything that executes on a Linux/Unix/Mac machine executes in the context of some kind of user account (the system login). By default, mysqld (the

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
Sorry for the off-list reply. It was an oversight. That said, the instructions for resetting a forgotten root password have a section for Windows and a section for Unix. The Unix section begins as follows: 1. Log on to your system as the Unix user that the MySQL server runs as (for example,

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
Dear Mr Harald, I've learned some things from your responses and even more from shawn green's. You might learn a lot from him about patience and courtesy, which make life on a technical forum a lot easier. You clearly know a lot about technical stuff, but you're short on patience, and it would

pid-file quite

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Mueller
Dear Mr. Green, first I'd like to thank you for your very clear explanations, which helped. 'mysql' is an overdetermined word with all the advantages and disadvantages of that. While finally getting into the door, I ran into another problem: pid-file quit without updating. This seems to be a

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread shawn l.green
On 7/31/2015 8:40 AM, Martin Mueller wrote: Sorry for the off-list reply. It was an oversight. That said, the instructions for resetting a forgotten root password have a section for Windows and a section for Unix. The Unix section begins as follows: 1. Log on to your system as the Unix

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread Reindl Harald
first: don't reply off-list, a answer on a mailing-list is no invitation for private support! Am 31.07.2015 um 02:34 schrieb Martin Mueller: I read that section but was stopped in my tracks by Log on to your system as the Unix user that the MySQL server runs as (for example, mysql) Because

Re: password problem

2015-07-31 Thread nikhil anand
Data directory path mention in cnf is of old mysql. Make a fresh data directory, configure it in configuration file and execute mysqlinstall_db, On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Martin Mueller martinmuel...@northwestern.edu wrote: I have installed mysql 5.1.73 on an old Mac Pro running OS