On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 23:53 -0700, Barry Yu wrote: > I tried your link to your webpage but getting "Server not found", your > server is down? > Barry Please don't top post. Try going to: http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#mysql Regards, Patrick > Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 05:26pm on Saturday, July 28, 2007 (UK time), Barry Yu scrawled: > > > > > >> As I said, this is the first time I started MySQL and never had any > >> password under any user name, I was trying to create a password for user > >> root after initial installation of MySQL as the book said, unless this > >> is out of date and no required any more? Or I have to do something in > >> addition (That book didn't mentioned it) > >> > > > > I do it a different way, as shown on my webpages here: > > http://yellowhammer.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr.html#mysql > > > > Steve > > > > >