Re: How to get mysql to accept network conections

[Dan <dan@itkinetix.com>]

if you comment out that bindaddress line, it wont specifically bind to 
an address.

I had to do the same thing on one of my sql servers.
try that and see if it helps

-dan


stan wrote:
> I'm trying to install ht elatest mythtv packages on a test machine before
> atempting to upgrade my real backend/frontends.
>
> The mythtv-database package is failing in the post install configuration. I
> believe this is because it's trying to connect to mysal (on the local
> machine) as root@machine_name.domain /etc/mysql/my.cnf used to have a line
> that siad "skip networking" thta needed to be comentd out to allow
> connections from other thna localhost. It n longer has this settign istead
> having a "bindadress 12.70.0.1" What can I do to allow ntework based
> connections?