Blew MySQL away by accident

2005-09-04 Thread Todd Cary
Unfortunately, I blew MySQL away by replacing the MySQL control tables with others and not making a copy of the folder. My data is backed up, so that is not a problem, but I cannot reinstall MySQL and create the mysql directory with the control tables (e.g. user, db, host). I have run yum

Re: Blew MySQL away by accident

2005-09-04 Thread Michael Stassen
Todd Cary wrote: Unfortunately, I blew MySQL away by replacing the MySQL control tables with others and not making a copy of the folder. My data is backed up, so that is not a problem, but I cannot reinstall MySQL and create the mysql directory with the control tables (e.g. user, db, host).

Re: Blew MySQL away by accident

2005-09-04 Thread Todd Cary
Michael - Thank you for your patience! I had forgotten about that part of the install...been a long time I needed to do an install...nice part of Linux. However, I am trying to move my RH 9 system to Centos 4.1 and everything has gone well until I though I could just copy the mysql db into

Re: Blew MySQL away by accident

2005-09-04 Thread Alexey Polyakov
However, I am trying to move my RH 9 system to Centos 4.1 and everything has gone well until I though I could just copy the mysql db into the new server. You can. Just make sure you add old-passwords option to your my.cnf file. -- Alexey Polyakov -- MySQL General Mailing List For list