Yes I enter the password manually into the remote mysql client (actually Oracle's SQL
developer) when I login.
I thought I would restart mysql with the /etc/init.d/mysql script and go back to the
original "default" settings without any my.cnf present. Just to check it was some setting
in my.cnf that caused the log in problem.
# ./mysql status
MySQL is running but PID file could not be found [FAILED]
# ./mysql stop
MySQL manager or server PID file could not be found! [FAILED]
In fact I cannot find a pid file anywhere on the box.
# ps -ef | grep mysql
root 6517 1 0 10:10 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
--datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/radium01.pid
mysql 6623 6517 0 10:10 pts/0 00:00:24 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/
--datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/object01.err
--pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/object01.pid --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --port=3306
# locate pid | grep mysql
/usr/share/man/man1/mysql_waitpid.1.gz
/usr/bin/mysql_waitpid
I have no idea why a pid file would be missing!
any ideas
Syd
