Am 20.08.2014 um 18:55 schrieb Augori: > Thanks! But if it's running in the background, how will I know when it has > completed?
completed what?! http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise what did you not understand in the paragraph below? >> mysqld_safe has *nothing* to do with "safe mode" >> >> it's just the profram invoked to start mysqld and >> watch / restart if mysqld dies "/usr/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables" does *nothing else* than start the ordinary mysql-daemon with --skip-grant-tables that does not more than *disable any authentication* so that you can login with any password as any user and if someone does that on a from outside reachable server he is BTW a fool ask in a *clear way* what problem you need to solve instead type commands you don't understand with params you don't understand from random sources you don't understand http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1708409/how-to-start-mysql-with-skip-grant-tables > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net > <mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net>> wrote: > > Am 20.08.2014 um 16:39 schrieb Augori: > > However, it's been 12 hours now and the thing is still restarting in > safe > > mode and I can't tell if it's making progress. The command I typed was > > > > /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables& > > > > I think I forgot to include the ampersand (&) at the end which would > have > > made it run in the background. > > yes > > just type STRG+Z which suspneds the brocess followed by the command "bg" > > > So now I'm seeing output like this the following: > > ------- > > ... > > 0-7f5f68388000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > > 7f5f68388000-7f5f6838900140820 08:35:01 mysqld_safe Number of processes > > running now: 0 > > 140820 08:35:01 mysqld_safe mysqld restarted > > -------- > > > > It always says Number of processes running now is 0. > > And it always has the number 140820 on that last line. > > > > Should I stop this? If so how? > > by just press "STRG+C" > > > If I let it go, is it going to take > > another 2-3 days to restart in regular mode? Does anything have any > > alternative suggestions for my original credentials access problem? > > mysqld_safe has *nothing* to do with "safe mode" > > it's just the profram invoked to start mysqld and > watch / restart if mysqld dies > > if you start an application in forground it will always > take forever or until it exits which you don't expect > from a service because - well, you just said to do so
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