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Hi,
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Ken Tozier wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed the "mysql-max-4.0.12.pkg", ran
>
> cd /usr/local/mysql
> sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe
> (Enter your password)
> (Press CTRL+Z)
> (Press CTRL+D to exit the shell)
> bg
Ugh, the ReadMe has a typo here (fixed in the meanwhile) - please change
the order of the last three commands:
(Press CTRL+Z)
bg
(Press CTRL+D to exit the shell)
Otherwise the MySQL process is suspended and will not run!
> as specified in the readme. When attempting to set the root password, I
> successfully ran /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password
> 'new-password'
>
> but it choked on:
> /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h $hostname password
> 'new-password'
>
> with the error: hostname: Undefined variable.
>
> Problem is, I'm such a Unix newbie I don't know how to retrieve the
> "hostname" it is looking for. I tried the name of my computer and my
> user name but those didn't work. What is it looking for?
It seems to be a common problem on Mac OS X that the "hostname" command
does not reveal a host name. I will need to check, if we can work around
this somehow...
Bye,
LenZ
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