>Description: I do not seem to be able to login as mysqladmin to set the root password , it says connect to server at 'server name' failed and host 'ip address' is not allowed to coonect to this MySQL server
it seems that there are some fundamental issues not mentioned on install that I have not done do you know what they are? I have tried to set the root pasword and it just does not work also after logging in as a regular user such as mysql -u mysql I could not set the password for this user >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID> >Originator: Oracle database admin >Organization: >MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ] >Synopsis: >Severity: >Priority: >Category: mysql >Class: >Release: mysql-4.0.0-alpha (Official MySQL RPM) >Server: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.22 Distrib 4.0.0-alpha, for pc-linux-gnu on i686 Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license Server version 4.0.0-alpha Protocol version 10 Connection Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Uptime: 22 hours 22 min 6 sec Threads: 1 Questions: 63 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 7 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 1 Queries per second avg: 0.001 >Environment: System: Linux wtcw0103 2.4.10-4GB #1 Fri Sep 28 17:20:21 GMT 2001 i686 unknown Architecture: i686 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.3/specs gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mpentium' CXX='gcc' CXXFLAGS='-O6 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -mpentium' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1384168 Sep 20 05:52 /lib/libc.so.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25215580 Sep 20 05:28 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Sep 20 05:28 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure --disable-shared --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static --with-client-ldflags=-all-static --without-berkeley-db --with-innodb --enable-assembler --with-mysqld-user=mysql --with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --prefix=/ --with-extra-charsets=complex --exec-prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --infodir=/usr/info --includedir=/usr/include --mandir=/usr/man --with-embedded-server '--with-comment=Official MySQL RPM' --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php