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By Boby at 2004-11-15 16:40
This tutorial is written in two ways. One way is for the compiled MySQL and one for the installed MySQL by RPM [tested only in Fedora]. It's not big deal, but I hope it is accessible also to newbies because the directory's change in both examples.
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If you compiled MySQL by yourself, go this way:
Maybe you have to change the directory where you installed MySQL (here it's /usr/local/mysql/ ).
1. Gain root access to your Linux system
Code:
[boby@space boby]$ su -
Password:
[root@space root]#
3. You will now start MySQL in safe mode without reading the grant tables with all MySQL database passwords and also you will disable networking. The "safe_mysqld" command will do this trick for you.
[root@space root]# /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 4.0.20-standard
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql>
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If you installed MySQL by RPM or use the package that comes with the distribution, go this way:
1. Gain root access to your Linux system
Code:
[boby@space boby]$ su -
Password:
[root@space root]#
3. You will now start MySQL in safe mode without reading the grant tables with all MySQL database passwords and also you will disable networking. The "safe_mysqld" command will do this trick for you.
[root@space root]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 4.0.20-standard
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql>
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Hope this helped you!
Please post any mistakes or if I forgot something.
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I'm using Fedora Core 9 with a preinstalled version of MySql, When i tried it this is wat i got
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[root@amidu /]# /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --pid --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &
[1] 9789
[root@amidu /]# nohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdout
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
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It then suspends forever, what could be the cause?