Unfortunately, I blew MySQL away by replacing the MySQL control tables with others and not making a copy of the folder.
My data is backed up, so that is not a problem, but I cannot reinstall MySQL and create the mysql directory with the control tables (e.g. user, db, host). I have run "yum remove mysql" and "yum install mysql" and "yum install mysql-server" and the control files are not recreated.
Any suggestions?
Todd