resetting mysql root password on 10.04

[Hal Burgiss]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Mike McMullin <mmcmullin at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>  Yes it does, openSuSE has actual scripts in the /etc/init.d directory that
> give other information, such as status, which would have been nice in this
> situation, as issuing sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop did not seem to work, the
> .pid file just changed it's contents, which indicates that something kept
> restarting it, but I have no idea what mythtv perhaps?.
>

still works ...

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql status
 * /usr/bin/mysqladmin  Ver 8.42 Distrib 5.1.37, for debian-linux-gnu on i486
Copyright 2000-2008 MySQL AB, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

Server version          5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1
Protocol version        10
Connection              Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket             /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:                 1 day 1 hour 25 min 47 sec


-- 
Hal