From: Darrell Shifflett Date: April 16 1999 3:00pm Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1957 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Web Thumper wrote: > I am too just installing mySQL (although I am using RedHat 5.1), but I am having > problems accessing the the server after its installed. Here is a post that I > sent off to comp.os.linux.misc a couple of days ago: > > ====================================================== > I am trying to get mySQL installed on Linux 5.1 and after the rpm install of > the server, client, and development packages when I try to issue the > "mysqladmin shutdown" command, I get the following error: > > mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed > error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)' > > What does this mean? Where is it getting the localhost from, is this just the > default? How can I change this...do I want to change this? Did I miss > something when installing Linux (I am newbie to Linux...I've worked with UNIX for > over 6 years). > > Not sure if this is the right news group for this question, but I did not see > a mySQL news group out there....and I did see some posts in this news group > regarding mySQL. > ====================================================== > > I forgot to mention in the above post that the mysqld daemon is up and running (3 > processes) and I got no errors during rpm installation (from the console). > > I have some mySQL docs and the first thing is says to do is make sure that you > can "mysqladmin shutdown" the daemon...ugh, I can't even do that at this point, > let along do the "mysql_install_db"...or "mysqladmin -u root password > 'new-password'" stuff. > > Thanks for any help to this newbie on getting mySQL installed AND running! > > Scott Dinn > Scott, all this info is in the MySQL docs. RTFM. Please view the very bottom of the posts, there is something saying: Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html" before posting.