Date:  Thu, 25 May 2006 21:54:12 +0200
From:  "Taco Scargo" <taco (at mark) scargo.nl>
Subject:  [coba-e:05393] Re: Changing mysql pass fails
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <006a01c68034$fef23a20$14001fac@DELLP4TACO>
References:  <010501c68020$d86d7a40$3701a8c0@lapxp>
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I am fairly sure you have an exclamation mark in your new password. The
shell interprets that. You want to prepend the exclamation mark by a 
backslash

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Sherman" <arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 7:29 PM
Subject: [coba-e:05388] Changing mysql pass fails


>
> I am trying to set mysql pass on BQ with the command:
>
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin --user=root password PASSWORD_GOES_HERE
>
> And get:
>
> bash: !212: event not found
>
> Googling didn't help...
>
> What does this mean and how to deal with it?
>
>
> Best
> --
> Arthur Sherman
>
>
>