[mythtv] Re: Guide Problems

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Tue Jun 10 15:18:10 EDT 2003


Steven J. Finnegan wrote:
> At 01:09 6/10/2003, Jarod C.Wilson wrote:
> 
>> On Monday, Jun 9, 2003, at 21:43 US/Pacific, Steven J. Finnegan wrote:
>>
>>> Jarod
>>>
>>> Nice work, I appreciate an install guide specific to my installation, 
>>> thanks.
>>
>>
>> And thank you, I'm glad it helped. So do you have a fully working 
>> system now?
> 
> 
> Well, no, still working on it. I have run into another problem in 
> setting the mysql password. The process went like this...
> (Passwords have been changed to protect, well, ME!)
> 
>         [root at atlas root]# mysqladmin -u root -h $HOSTNAME -p password 
> RoOtPaSsWoRd
>         Enter password:
>         mysqladmin: connect to server at 'atlas' failed
>         error: 'Host 'localhost.controlsoftcorp.com' is not allowed to 
> connect to this MySQL server'
>         [root at atlas root]# uname -a
>         Linux atlas 2.4.20-18.9mythtv #2 Sat Jun 7 23:48:58 PDT 2003 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>         [root at atlas root]# echo $HOSTNAME
>         atlas
> 
> This was being done through a SSH shell, if it matters. What am I doing 
> wrong?

Well, this is a little quirkiness with the mysql tools that
has always bugged me but here's the problem. If you have a
commandline option that takes another argument you have two
choices "--fullname=argument" or "-fargument" with no space.
Execpt, "-u" will allow a space where other options won't.
If you use "-f argument" it won't work and the commanline
parsing makes it diffocult to see where the problem is. Try:

mysqladmin -u root -h$HOSTNAME -pRoOtPaSsWoRd

or

mysqladmin -u root --host=$HOSTNAME --password=RoOtPaSsWoRd

--  bjm



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