Accessing system and mysql

naicker82 · 03-20-2006, 04:22 AM

Scenario:
A system running on "Arch Linux 0.7 wombat vesuvius" and containing a VERY important MYSQL database in it. Old programmer left and i (a newbie) have to access this system and its database. Isn't there any GUI i can work with??. Everything is in command line, i dont know how to start. i have the username and password for linux though.

linux newbie

ambattu · 03-20-2006, 05:18 AM

If there is an existing database, you can do it with the command line easily. The MySQL website has some excellent references. If you need a GUI approach, install PHPMyAdmin. I don't whether you can install it in a system with existing database, but if you're going to install MySQL afresh there are serveral programs(www.apachefriends.org) which come loaded with PHP, MySQL, etc.