Posted by kenoli on 02/15/07 17:04

On Feb 14, 2:06 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> dorayme's Power Mac G4/usr/local/mysql/
>
> and there are all sorts of things from there. The mysql folder is
> an alias as I can see by the little curved arrow in the icon. So,
> given this info, what exactly am I to type into Terminal please?

try enterring:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -h localhost -u root

This is the full path to the mysql appcommand line application and
should get you to it no matter what directory you are in. If the
users have not been changed since installation, it should get you into
the MYSQL administration program. You can follow commands in a mysql
manual after that. I don't know them well enough to tell you what
they are. The first think you whould do is to set an admin user and
password.

When you install and set up phpmyadmin, I think it either uses the
localhost password or sets one up for itself. After that you can
administer mysql from phpmyadmin, which is quite easy. You can even
set up new users and passwords from there.

--Kenoli

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