On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:54:44PM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > > 3. add/edit some MySQL tables without knowing the MySQL root password > > I've fooled around with Expect for 1. and 2., and tried > mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables for 3., but I feel > lame (and I have to have my preinst script stop/start the > MySQL server during install) ..
You don't do this. The database server might be on a different machine. So a requirement for a local database, or any attempt to alter a local instance of MySQL, is doomed to failure. Please don't do this. Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120822134257.gc30...@codelibre.net