Re: [CentOS] mysql can't connect from localhost -strange behavior

2015-03-30 Thread Paul Jones
On 30/03/15 05:22, Tim Dunphy wrote: mysql FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Yup! That was it. Thanks for the reminder! :) Tim From the mySQL man pages: If you modify the grant tables indirectly using account-management statements such as GRANThttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/grant.html,

Re: [CentOS] reset CentOS-7 lost root password

2014-08-05 Thread Paul Jones
Should be do-able without the live CD: At the GRUB menu, edit the kernel line, add init=/bin/sh to the end of it and boot from that. You'll end up at the shell prompt, where you can change the password with the normal passwd command. You may need to: - mount -o remount,rw on your root

Re: [CentOS] reset CentOS-7 lost root password

2014-08-05 Thread Paul Jones
On 05/08/14 12:26, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 11:21:35AM +, Paul Jones wrote: - mount -o remount,rw on your root partition before you'll be allowed to write any changes - touch /.autorelabel to make sure SELinux doesn't refuse the changes after you reboot (if you're

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 kernel-2.6.32-431.1.2.el6.x86_64 kernel panic

2013-12-13 Thread Paul Jones
Hi, Yes, while building a new machine this morning. There's a bug report for it; info on the cause of the problem there (missing signing key): http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6831 Thanks, Paul -- On 12/13/2013 12:18 PM, MeasureMyEnergy - Tim D'Cruz wrote: Hi, Has anyone else

[CentOS] Odd useradd/LDAP behaviour

2013-10-11 Thread Paul Jones
Hello list, On our CentOS 6.4 machines I've LDAP enabled such that Windows users with the requisite unix attributes can log into the machines. These remote windows users have UID/GID starting at 2 so are well out of the way of local users. If I now create a local user with useradd, the