RE: upgrading to v 4.1

[Daevid Vincent]

AHHH! I bet that is why I was having such a horrible time last night
trying to upgrade! I finally said fsck it and reverted back to
3.23.55...

I don't use a root password on localhost... Now I'll try your
suggestions and see if it works. *sigh* *crosses fingers*


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Haneda [mailto:lists@stripped] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:59 PM
> To: MySql
> Subject: Re: upgrading to v 4.1
> 
> 
> on 05/28/2003 1:51 PM, Ted Rogers at trogers@stripped wrote:
> 
> > Is it recommended  that I upgrade MySQL 3.23.53 to 4.1.x?  
> Are then any
> > special notes I might remember when doing so?
> > (Mac OS X Server 10.2.6)
> > 
> > Ted
> 
> Yeah, I posted this and no reply, but you need to do this
> 
> Subject : mysql_fix_privilege_tables behaves odd, explain this
> Well this is very interesting
> 
> At the start of the script they have
> root_password="$1"
> host="localhost"
> user="root"
> 
> I added in just below the above
> echo "----------------------------------------------------------"
> echo $root_password
> echo "----------------------------------------------------------"
> 
> Then if you try 
> sh mysql_fix_privilege_tables -p somepassword
> Guess what you get...
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> -p somepassword
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So it seems the script takes the whole argument...
> 
> sh mysql_fix_privilege_tables my_root_pass
> Works fine
> 
> Is this standard behavior?
> The Script says
> echo "If you get 'Access denied' errors, you should run this 
> script again"
> echo "and give the MySQL root user password as an argument!"
> 
> Does not really tell you there is some special way to do it.  
> What is the
> heck is $1 anyway? And why is it a literally quoted value?
> 
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