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Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL not allowing "--skip-grant-tables" as root!
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL not allowing "--skip-grant-tables" as root!
- From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu May 2 09:46:35 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
"Correllia Fuengabe" <corras4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [root admin]# /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables
> Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the
> manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!
> 020502 3:10:35 Aborting
>
> 020502 3:10:35 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete
Correillia, it's probably because MySQL on your server is setup to run as a
user other than root, probably mysql. You need to do this first:
su - mysql
Or if it's setup to run as a different user, replace "mysql" with that
username.
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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/