Re: Fwd: Cron <root@coyote> run-parts /etc/cron.daily

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Sunday 27 May 2007, Tony Nelson wrote:

At 9:27 AM -0400 5/27/07, Gene Heskett wrote:

Hi folks;

I've been trying to make this work, un-sucessfully so far.  I've set a
password yadda yadda, but while I've spent an hour or more reading the
manpages, nowhere in them did I stumble across a step by step on how to
create, and initialize, a database called 'bugs'.

Am I going blind in my advanced years, or is this bit of seemingly vital
info actually on the missing list?

Or better yet, since this is probably the result of an update, what package
can I have smart remove in order to stop this daily nagging by cron?

I also have noted that since this nagging started about 10 days ago, that
my logwatch report no longer contains a section listing kernel bugs.  Is
this related?

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Subject: Cron <root@coyote> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Date: Sunday 27 May 2007
From: Cron Daemon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

/etc/cron.daily/bugzilla:


Can't connect to the database.
Error: Access denied for user 'mysql'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

This is the relevent part of the message.  It says it can't log in to the
mysql database.  It needs to log in to the mysql database.  It tried to use
a password but it did not work.  You should find out why.

1. There is no installed user 'mysql', or at least no home dir /home/mysql exists.

2. There is a password set for the user 'mysql' in the other default script, which I think its reading because the message changed a bit when I did set the password. I also changed the password to match in the /etc/passwd file using the passwd -u mysql command.