Remving All of MySQL Database

Björn König bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Feb 18 05:04:30 PST 2006


Roman Shakin schrieb:
> hello i need to remove all of the mysql databases... i messed it up... 
> and now cant log in? please help. I tried deleting the /var/dg/mysql and 
> running mysql_install_sh

just start mysql after removing the database, i.e.

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh stop
rm -R /var/db/mysql
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start

That's it. Now you have a fresh clean database. The password of the root 
account is "" (without quotes ;-)

Björn


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