From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 14:51:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C0437B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 14:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by thehousleys.net (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f4GLpEj25949; Wed, 16 May 2001 17:51:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) (authenticated) by thehousleys.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4GLpCm25941; Wed, 16 May 2001 17:51:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3B02F650.D537094C@thehousleys.net> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:51:12 -0400 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michael@327.ca Cc: Tony Wells , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with MySQL port References: <01051612525900.00561@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> <3B02E3E4.C012CAE1@journalstar.com> <01051614483002.00561@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael O'Henly wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, Tony. > > OK, I've tried: # mysqladmin -u root -p -password "[password]" > I get the "Enter password: " prompt. > Then I hit > > ...and I get: > > mysqladmin: Unknown command: "[password]" > > So, I think there must be more to it than this. I'll take a closer look at > the Changelog to try to figure out how the client's default behaviour has > changed. (This makes sense because MySQL has been updated since I last > installed it.) > > Thanks again. You need to do 1 of 2 things, to enter a password for the first time you need to do mysqladmin -u root password or if you have a password mysqladmin -p -u root password or mysqladmin -u root --password= password man 1 mysqladmin might also be of some help Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." -- Charles Spickman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message