a problem with mysql

[Scott Berry]

Hal,

I tried your permissions as "chmod /wrxr-xr-x" and that didn't seem to
work either.




On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 12:31 -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:31:08AM -0600, Scott Berry wrote:
> > I did finally get the command  to work but it did not resolve any of the
> > problems.  It's still saying it's missing the debian-sys-maint user and
> > probably does not see anything in /etc/mysql.
> 
> Try 'apt-get purge mysql-server', then reinstall.
> 
> You could also google the sys-maint user. The password is stored
> somewhere in the filesytem (I think), and you could recreate the user
> that way.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Hal
> 
>