On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:24:17AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote: TC> Unfortunately, I blew MySQL away by replacing the MySQL control tables TC> with others and not making a copy of the folder. TC> TC> My data is backed up, so that is not a problem, but I cannot reinstall TC> MySQL and create the mysql directory with the control tables (e.g. user, TC> db, host). I have run "yum remove mysql" and "yum install mysql" and TC> "yum install mysql-server" and the control files are not recreated. TC> TC> Any suggestions? rm -f /var/lib/mysql/mysql/* mysql_install_db -- Regards, Alex Antropoff