(newbie question)

Hello there!

I've just gotten my MySQL compiled and installed on my box. I'm running a linux dist. with the libc5 libraries and linuxthreads installed along with it. There is some mention of problems with resolving localhost with the server under this platform. When I do this:

% ./mysqladmin -u root variables

I get this:

./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'

When I do this:

./mysqladmin -u='root@localhost' variables

Everything is peachy-keen... But, unfortunately, this approach doesn't work on all things - such as resetting the root users password for the MySQL engine. Any pointers on fixing it short of moving to a system with the glibc2 libaries?

take care, -jeff

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