From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSYBc-0005Vf-5c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:48:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C9D6E023B; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411F6E0227 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51CD1DEE03 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5ycWtCpeP-vn for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D456BDECCA for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:48:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to mysql Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:44:25 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200901281613.37159.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <498086EC.3060403@allenjb.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <498086EC.3060403@allenjb.me.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901291444.25724.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: eb44a2cc-b850-47b6-b251-7ca5adff9bb1 X-Archives-Hash: a778a5a4068fecd6c49e09a8204a91cc On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:25:16 AllenJB wrote: > Check the bind-address setting in /etc/my.cnf - if this is 127.0.0.1 > then no other machines will be able to connect to the mysql server. To > listen on all available interfaces, this setting should be "0.0.0.0" or > unset. That was it - thanks. I'll raise a document bug to have this added to the MySQL startup guide, which talks gaily of connecting to various hosts, but not how to make that possible. > Also check that skip-networking is not enabled. It's disabled by default, and I knew I didn't want to enable it. -- Rgds Peter