On 05/08/2017 01:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 05/08/2017 11:53 AM, Joe wrote:On Mon, 8 May 2017 10:06:33 -0500 Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:Random meandering thru the help system yields documentation of "account management" on the microscopic details (with links into https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/account-management-sql-commands/ ). *NO USEFUL OVERVIEW* [snip]I do not believe it has diverged far from the user interface of mysql, and it will need to maintain backward compatibility for a while, and there's plenty of this kind of thing around: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/sql/mysql_beginner.htmlThat link doesn't have what I was looking for. However it links to http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/sql/MySQL_HowTo.html which appears to.
Raised false hopes. It makes the unfounded assumptions that all installs go perfectly and thus gives no trouble shooting guidance :{
I've even had a go at purging and reinstalling *NO LUCK*There have been tantalizing hints on this list that sometimes better luck can be had using aptitude or dpkg. Will be re-reading man-pages.
Somewhere I've notes directing output of a command to console and a file simultaneously. Then I'll have a record of what does and doesn't happen. Tried the 'script' command - output had too may non-ASCII characters in output file.