ok, I have spent the last few hours learning how to make databases, tables and records and all that fun stuff. Then of course I want to make a webpage that can access those databases. I looked into the grant command and thought that I was using it incorrectly, but it turns out that I do not have a mysql database! It my have gotten deleted a while ago when I was playing around and didn't know anything Other than the databases I have created the only other one there is test. Is there a way that I can get the mysql database back? Or am I going to have to reinstall mysql to fix this?

When I do the SHOW DATABASES command the only databases that are shown are:

test
play

I think that the 'mysql' database got deleeted somehow Is there a way to recreate the default database?

well I was able to get the 'mysql' database back using the mysql_install_db comman.