On Monday 16 February 2009, Craig White wrote: >On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 16 February 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >On Monday 16 February 2009 20:27:04 Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> No package webmin available. >> >> Nothing to do >> > >> >I don't think I've ever had webmin from a distro package, but it installs >> > so easily from the website. >> > >> >Anne >> >> I found it, installed it, let it do its updates, but a scan for servers >> doesn't find mysql cuz it is not running and now won't run. >> >> I had NDI this was going to such a PIMA, but a friend has mythtv running >> at his place and it does everything but fix breakfast. >> >> If anyone has any idea how to reset this SOB to absolutely square one, >> never having been run, please advise. Deleting /var/lib/mysql didn't do >> it. > >---- >you don't delete /var/lib/mysql >you delete /var/lib/mysql/* > >mkdir /var/lib/mysql >chown mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql >service mysqld start I got to here ^^^ and selinux stuck up its hand & waved at me. SELinux is preventing mysqld (mysqld_t) "create" to mysql.sock (var_lib_t). And recommended I run restorecon -v 'mysql.sock', but: [root@coyote rpms]# restorecon -v 'mysql.sock' restorecon: stat error on mysql.sock: No such file or directory So I go back to the top of the list above and repeat, apparently forever cuz I get the same thing when I restart mysqld. Now, since mysql.sock doesn't exist, because it can't create it, therefore restorecon can't do anything about it, WTH do I do next? So I located the old one in the database, touched a new one, then 'chown mysql:mysql mysql.sock;restorecon -v mysql.sock' No errors reported. But, a 'service mysqld start' eventually fails. And now the selinux count is plus 2 cuz I tried it twice. So how do we fix YAMYSQLFSCKUP? Thanks Craig >mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' > ^don't change ^change > >done > >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines