> Then I tried to set a password for the MYSQL root user and I get the
> following error.
>
> ./bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password 'christ1'
> Enter password: ***
>
> ./bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password:
I installed the binary of mysql 3.23.39 with the following steps and it
started fine
ln -s mysql-VERSION-OS mysql
cd mysql
scripts/mysql_install_db
chown -R root /usr/local/mysql
chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
chown -R root /usr/local/mysql/bin
bin/s
