I'm going to half-jokingly suggest that the client can inform them of the problem in many case. Port numbers are usually numeric or that of something in /etc/sevices, right? Passwords are not.
Jeremy On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Toru Maesaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 > However, I do agree that this might confuse existing MySQL users. > > If we were to make this change, we'll probably get a fair amount of > inquires on the mailing list about how "-p" doesn't behave as people expect. > The reason that I'm agreeing with this blueprint is because hopefully as > time (maybe after a year of Cirrus release?) passes it'll become common > knowledge that "-p" in Drizzle is for specifying the port like you would > expect from many other server software. > > I'm being optimistic here but thats my 2 cents. > > Cheers, > Toru > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Jay Pipes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Added a Blueprint: >> >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drizzle/+spec/usability-cli-port-specification >> >> I've left the definition in "Discussed" status, and appended the task to >> the Low Hangin Fruit milestone, which is the ongoing "fix it if you can find >> time" milestone: >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drizzle/+milestone/low-hanging-fruit >> >> Please reply a +1 or -1 on whether this small usability change is a good >> idea. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jay >> >> Brian Aker wrote: >> >>> We should fix the -p thing? How often does this trip people up? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -Brian >>> >>> On Dec 5, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: >>> >>> Use --port=9999, not -p 9999. The latter is saying you will enter a >>>> password and want to use the "9999" database. >>>> >>>> Cheers! >>>> >>>> Jay >>>> >>>> ntwrkd wrote: >>>> >>>>> hello list, >>>>> i recently installed drizzled, but now i am trying to connect to >>>>> drizzled, but it is asking me for a password (which has not been set >>>>> yet). >>>>> any ideas? >>>>> drizzled daemon: sbin/drizzled --no-defaults --port=9999 >>>>> --basedir=/usr/local/drizzle --datadir=/usr/local/drizzle/var >>>>> drizzle command: >>>>> gfizzle:drizzle msacks$ bin/drizzle -p 9999 >>>>> Enter password: >>>>> Matthew >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: >>>>> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe : >>>>> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: >>>> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : >>>> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> _______________________________________________________ >>> Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org >>> Seattle, Washington >>> http://krow.net/ <-- Me >>> http://tangent.org/ <-- Software >>> _______________________________________________________ >>> You can't grep a dead tree. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: >>> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : >>> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss<https://launchpad.net/%7Edrizzle-discuss> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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