[CentOS] restarting mysql databases

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/06/2014 03:51 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 15:43 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>>> failed with:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
>>>>>> error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
>> password:
>>>>>> NO)'
>>>>>>
> Please read the above carefully: using password: NO
> Specifying the password requires the -p or --password option. Just
> specify -p on the command line and let mysqladmin ask for the
> password...

When I try 'mysqladmin -u root -p' I get the help dump.

Going to try the secure install, or delete those three files I found.