Re: Lost root password.

2002-11-27 Thread Jacek Mach
Yes, thank you it helps ! Regards, Jacek. > I'm not sure if you've gotton your answer or not yet... (i have 150 more > mailing list messages to go!) > > Try http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html > > On Monday 25 November 2002 06:05 pm, Jacek Mach wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have

Re: Lost root password.

2002-11-26 Thread Dr. Poo
I'm not sure if you've gotton your answer or not yet... (i have 150 more mailing list messages to go!) Try http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html On Monday 25 November 2002 06:05 pm, Jacek Mach wrote: > Hello, > > I have made the mistake and now have no root access to mySQL.

re: Lost root password.

2002-11-26 Thread Egor Egorov
Jacek, Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 2:05:40 AM, you wrote: JM> I have made the mistake and now have no root access to mySQL. Could you JM> help me, please, to reset the root password. Please, look at the manual: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html -- For technical

Re: Lost root password

2002-07-22 Thread Victoria Reznichenko
michael, Monday, July 22, 2002, 1:32:47 PM, you wrote: mj> We have a support contract with you. One of my clients has lost his root mj> password. How can we access his mysql? You should take down mysqld, start the one with --skip-grant-tables option and change password for user 'root'. It also d

Re: Lost root password

2002-07-22 Thread Anil Garg
c if this helps: 1.. Cold Reboot the machine and hit the SPACE bar to stop loading when this message appears: Hit[ENTER] to boot immediately or any other key for cmd prompt. Booting kernel in 9,8,7? 2.. Type: boot -s (machine now in single user mode.) You will see the following message

RE: Lost root password

2002-07-22 Thread Dan Vande More
http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/o/Command-line_options.html See --skip-grant-tables -Original Message- From: michael johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:33 AM To: Support at Mysql; mysql@lists. mysql. com Subject: Lost root password We have a support contrac

Re: Lost root password

2002-07-22 Thread Chris Grigor
1. Take down the mysqld server by sending a kill (not kill -9) to the mysqld server. The pid is stored in a `.pid' file, which is normally in the MySQL database directory: shell> kill `cat /mysql-data-directory/hostname.pid` You must be either the Unix root user or the same user m

Re: Lost root password

2002-07-22 Thread Chris Grigor
1. Take down the mysqld server by sending a kill (not kill -9) to the mysqld server. The pid is stored in a `.pid' file, which is normally in the MySQL database directory: shell> kill `cat /mysql-data-directory/hostname.pid` You must be either the Unix root user or the same user mysql

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
Try GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword' WITH GRANT OPTION; Or you could always do a straight INSERT INTO user VALUES('%','root',password('mypassword'), 'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y'); james --- Nick Wilson wrote: Well, I'm in !! Now I'

RE: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Gurhan Ozen
TECTED] Subject: Re: lost root password trouble -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Gurhan Ozen declared > Are your databases in /var/lib/mysql ?IT is trying to startup with reading > databaseses from that path but i think it can't.. > Also check the error

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sql * and then James Carrier declared > It's OK Nick - it started. It's just writing that to the terminal > window. Hit enter to get the command prompt back (or ctrl-c if that > doesn't work). Ahhh,,, what a donkey (me not you) of course it 'ha

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then James Carrier declared > Do you have permissions over the mysql directories? Certainly do. > Can you start safe_mysqld as root? (purely for problem solving > purposes ;) Yep, well at least before it 'hangs' > And of course - are yo

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
Ah... Do you have permissions over the mysql directories? Can you start safe_mysqld as root? (purely for problem solving purposes ;) And of course - are your databases in /var/lib/mysql? james Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > * and then Gerald Clark

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
It's OK Nick - it started. It's just writing that to the terminal window. Hit enter to get the command prompt back (or ctrl-c if that doesn't work). james Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > * and then James Carrier declared > >>It'll be something

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Scott Helms
ack in with the root password and all of your other accounts are unaffected. Scott Helms - Original Message - From: "Nick Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: Re: lost root password trouble > -

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Gurhan Ozen declared > Are your databases in /var/lib/mysql ?IT is trying to startup with reading > databaseses from that path but i think it can't.. > Also check the error log file to see what's going on. Sounds reasonable, 2 quest

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Gerald Clark declared > >Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-) > >It's just 'hanging' now. It says 'starting mysqld daemon with databases > >from /var/lib/mysql' and just hangs > > > It just wrote that message over the comma

RE: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Gurhan Ozen
2002 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lost root password trouble -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then James Carrier declared > It'll be something like: > > /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables Well, that'

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Gerald Clark
Nick Wilson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > > >* and then James Carrier declared > >>It'll be something like: >> >>/usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables >> > >Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-) >It's just 'hanging' now. It s

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then James Carrier declared > It'll be something like: > > /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-) It's just 'hanging' now. It says 'starting mysqld daemon with da

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
Hi Nick It'll be something like: /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables Cheers james Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > I have searched the archives and read the manual but am at a loss as to > how to get my

Re: Lost root password, now losing sanity!!!!

2001-08-29 Thread Ed Carp
temi odurinde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: > Chris + All, > Thanks for your postings. God knows why but I still cannot login to MySQL, I could >not kill and start MySQL in safe mode as suggested. (I come from a Windoz background. >I am a total newbies Unix/command line stuff) but I found instruc

Re: Lost Root password

2001-08-29 Thread Chris Lathem
, and you are on your way! Hope this helps, Chris - Original Message - From: "Ed Carp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:51 AM Subject: Re: Lost Root password > temi odurinde ([EMAIL PROTE

Re: Lost Root password

2001-08-29 Thread Ed Carp
temi odurinde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: > Dear List, > I have lost the root password to my MySQL installation. What is the quickest way to >remedy this situation, uninstall and reinstall MySQL or what???. My installation >runs on a RaQ4 server. The quickest way is to RTFM :) The searchable

Re: Lost Root password

2001-08-29 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
At 03:39 29-8-01 -0700, temi odurinde wrote: >Dear List, >I have lost the root password to my MySQL installation. What is the >quickest way to remedy this situation, uninstall and reinstall MySQL or >what???. My installation runs on a RaQ4 server. Take a look at the manual and this lists archi