Re: oops - unintentionally uninstalled mysql-server

Jan Schneider <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.horde.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zitat von Sebastian Birnbach <[email protected]>:

> All,
>
> thanks for bearing with me so far. Starting from a small problem I see
> myself ending up redoing a major part of the horde installation.
>
> Now, while getting my PHP installation real clean I seem to have also
> uninstalled the mysql-server56. I noticed this as the currently running
> server behaves strangely in taking way too long to answer requests. In
> other words, the database files are still there, the SQL server process is
> still running and all my data apparently is - yet - present.
>
> I am hesitant to simply reinstall the package as I don't quite know what
> files may be overwritten. As far as I can see the data files *should* not
> get changed, should they?

Correct.

> But will I stay with the same database accounts and passwords?

Yes, those are stored in the database too.

> And how can I make sure that the server is brought down gracefully (and
> writes to disk all the pending information), now that I don't have the
> start/stop scripts? Will a simple SIGHUN (i.e. a kill command) do the trick?

Depends on your distro.

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Jan Schneider
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