From: Date: December 7 2003 7:48am
Subject: Broken pipe
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I just recently installed mySQL (4.0.16-pc-linux-i686), but have been having trouble using the mysqlaccess script. I am trying to set a root password, but every time it gives me a "Broken pipe" error. The  $MYSQL     = '/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql'; line needs no changing because I installed mysql in the default directory. Here is what i type and the output:

root@desmond:/usr/local/mysql# ./bin/mysqlaccess -u root password '<removed>'
mysqlaccess Version 2.06, 20 Dec 2000
By RUG-AIV, by Yves Carlier (Yves.Carlier@stripped)
Changes by Steve Harvey (sgh@stripped)
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Broken pipe

I'm very new to sql and this is testing my patience. I've been sitting here for hours trying to figure this out.

Thank you for your time,
Alex B.