I think you have some slight errors in your connection line:
Werner van Mook wrote:
>/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password <password>
should be:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root --password=<password>
>/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h `hostname` password
><password>
should be
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h localhost
--password=<password>
>Then I replaced localhost with 172.0.0.1 and I got :
localhost's IP address is 127.0.0.1, so this should be:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h 127.0.0.1
--password=<password>
Also, you're running mysqladmin with no commands, which will just output
the help pages. Do you mean to be running the mysql command line client
to interact with the mysqld server? If so replace mysqladmin in all of
the above with mysql
--Ware
