On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:38 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > webmin not available according to yum. > > Ok, so I rip it out again, only this time I run a script that searches the > locate database for mysql and deletes all the leftovers before I reinstall. > > Would that help? Something is obviously completely fubar. ---- turned out that I had to start mysqld before running... mysqladmin - u root password 'new-password' after that, it was no problem connecting # mysqladmin -u root password 'test' [root@lin-workstation httpd]# mysql -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 5 Server version: 5.0.67 Source distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> \q Bye webmin (rpm and/or tarball) is available at http://www.webmin.com Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines