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2 Jun
2004
2 Jun
'04
16:21
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:32, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, "Nick Mudge"
wrote: I tried starting the mysql and this happened:
You need to set MySQL up with passwords using mysqladmin before you can use it. There are instructions somewhere - if you reinstall MySQL, I know that the relevant bit pops up during the installation process.
Sorry not to be of more help.
John
You can also use webmin to setup mysql with users and databases. I'm currently looking at rekall to admin a database but I needed to setup the database and user account first. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)