"Kevin H. Phillips" <kh-phillips@stripped> wrote:
> Hi, Nils
> I was able to stop the mysqld daemon using the kill command. However,
> when I tried to start it using mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables, a line
> would appear saying:
> [root@mail root]# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
> Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
>
> with the cursor blinking at the left-hand side of the screen with
> apparently nothing going on. The daemon apparently *is* started because
> I can ping it and get an "alive" signal.
>
> However, when I try granting options to root, I get an Error 1047:
> unknown command. (in the screen where I start the server, while the
> cursor is blinking, there will be no command line prompt so I have to
> open another terminal screen. If I type anything where the cursor is
> blinking in the first screen, nothing happens).
>
Execute FLUSH PRIVILEGES before using GRANT command.
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