I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas?
On 5/15/06, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas?
You may need to consult your yum configs and repo files and look for excluded packages. I know cpanel does this, but I'm honestly not sure about plesk.
What does it mean if your sig is longer than the body of your message?
Thanks for your reply. Nothing in my yum conf or repos has been changed.
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/15/06, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas?
You may need to consult your yum configs and repo files and look for excluded packages. I know cpanel does this, but I'm honestly not sure about plesk.
What does it mean if your sig is longer than the body of your message?
On 5/15/06, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Nothing in my yum conf or repos has been changed.
Hmm, okay then. What do you have in your log files? Any hints as to errors in there?
got it. The old mysql instance was still running..i killed it..nuked it's files..reinstalled and i have base control now..
William Warren wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Nothing in my yum conf or repos has been changed.
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/15/06, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas?
You may need to consult your yum configs and repo files and look for excluded packages. I know cpanel does this, but I'm honestly not sure about plesk.
What does it mean if your sig is longer than the body of your message?
So plesk has some bugs... why re-install mysql? If you don't know the password you can just start it up with --skip-grant-tables and set a new one.
I don't know why but it seems common for mysql apps to screw up the root account (mediawiki did this recently). The solution? don't put your root password into an untrusted application. Create a new account using the mysql command line client and then give those details to your application.
John.
William Warren wrote:
I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas?
unfortunately plesk requires root to install so it takes over the mysql server..:(
John Newbigin wrote:
So plesk has some bugs... why re-install mysql? If you don't know the password you can just start it up with --skip-grant-tables and set a new one.
I don't know why but it seems common for mysql apps to screw up the root account (mediawiki did this recently). The solution? don't put your root password into an untrusted application. Create a new account using the mysql command line client and then give those details to your application.
John.
William Warren wrote:
I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas?
mysql still refused to start. I wound up restoring the box form a pre-plesk backup.
John Newbigin wrote:
So plesk has some bugs... why re-install mysql? If you don't know the password you can just start it up with --skip-grant-tables and set a new one.
I don't know why but it seems common for mysql apps to screw up the root account (mediawiki did this recently). The solution? don't put your root password into an untrusted application. Create a new account using the mysql command line client and then give those details to your application.
John.
William Warren wrote:
I installed plesk(first mistake at least here..<G>) and it got in my way in some area more than it helped. The first thing it did was deny root access to mysqld and i could not find the username and password for adding another database. I removed plesk and mysql. when i used yum to reinstall mysql i was then told root @ localhost was denied. I removed mysql again and nuked all of the mysql files i could find that were left behind. Now when i reinstall it won't even start. Any ideas?
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