> start mysqld up with the --skip-grant-tables option. Taht will turn off > all access restrictions so you can go in and fix the access tables > (erm, that's the mysql database, not access... you know what I mean) > > When you're done, kill mysqld and restart it as normal. > > It can be a bit of a pain figuring out the command line for mysqld which > is normally handled by safe_mysqld, or whatever your distribution uses > instead. I recommend using 'ps wwaux|grep mysqld' to get the current > command line options and then entering that with the addition of the > --skip-grant-tables option. > > Andrew
Think I've really foo bar'd it up. This doesn't work... Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root! 030826 9:46:42 Aborting 030826 9:46:42 mysqld: Shutdown Complete (read the security bit and it says to run mysqld -Sg/--skip-grant-tables .... which tells me to read the security manual ..... catch 22! So anyways, when removing it, its obviously not blasting away the actual databases. Thinking I may just have to drill these manually. Did a bit of a google but can't find info on how. Is it just stored in a file I can rm or any thoughts? (don't want/need any info in the databases, or even the structure) Cheers, Craig -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
