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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sorry! Stupid question, but... Post 101272 by starscream on Tuesday 7th of March 2006 01:22:57 AM
Old 03-07-2006
Sorry! Stupid question, but...

Hey everybody. I'm going through my system (Mac OS X 10.3.9, through the Terminal application) trying to get rid of instances of MySQL that I installed over each other. I was having trouble getting MySQL to work: it wasn't letting me set the password, then it wouldn't let me create new databases once I finally got it set up. I've tried everything and so now I'm wondering if maybe the redundant versions are conflicting with each other. So I'm going to erase all of them and reinstall. Problem is, I'm having difficulty deleting this one pesky link. It doesn't seem to go anywhere, but the shell won't let me kill it, even with sudo. Here's the code:

Code:
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   47  2 Mar 18:04 mysql -> mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  646  8 Nov 09:35 mysql-max-4.1.15-apple-darwin7.9.0-powerpc
seans-Computer:/usr/local sean$ rm -r mysql
rm: mysql: Permission denied
seans-Computer:/usr/local sean$ sudo rm -r mysql -> mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc
-bash: mysql-standard-4.1.18-apple-darwin8.2.0-powerpc: Permission denied

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
 

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cvm-mysql(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      cvm-mysql(8)

NAME
cvm-mysql - MySQL module SYNOPSIS
cvm-mysql CREDENTIALS
Pass phrase DESCRIPTION
This module queries a MySQL database for the account name, compares the stored pass phrase with the given one using crypt(3). CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
CVM_MYSQL_DEFAULT_FILE The full path of the defaults file to read if the following variable is set. If not set, the file $HOME/.my.cnf will be read (the MySQL default). CVM_MYSQL_DEFAULT_GROUP If set, the module will read connection default options from the named group in the defaults file as above CVM_MYSQL_HOST The hostname or IP of the MySQL server. If not set, a connection to the local host is assumed. CVM_MYSQL_USER The MySQL login ID to connect as. If not set, the invoking user is assumed. CVM_MYSQL_PASS The password for the above user. CVM_MYSQL_DB The database name, must be set. CVM_MYSQL_PORT The port number for the TCP/IP connection (only used if the server is not local). CVM_MYSQL_POSTQ (optional) The SQL query to execute after the credentials have been validated, see cvm-sql(7). CVM_MYSQL_PWCMP (optional) The password comparison module to use. CVM_MYSQL_SOCKET The path to the socket that should be used for connections to a local server. CVM_MYSQL_QUERY (optional) The SQL query to issue to retrieve the row containing the account information from the database, see cvm-sql(7). SEE ALSO
cvm-sql(7), cvm-pgsql(8), cvm-pwfile(8), cvm-qmail(8), cvm-unix(8), cvm-vmailmgr(8), cvm-benchclient(8), cvm-checkpassword(8), cvm-test- client(8) http://untroubled.org/pwcmp/pwcmp.html http://untroubled.org/cvm/cvm.html cvm-mysql(8)
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