From: Guillaume Morin <gemorin@debian.org>
Subject: Re: MySQL Won't Bind to TCP Port 3306?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:51:07 -0400
Taken from /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian :
* NETWORKING:
=============
For security reasons, the Debian package has enabled the skip-networking
option in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Comment it out and restart the server to
enable connections on tcp port 3306. Check with "netstat -tlnp" if it's
listening.
Taken from /etc/mysql/my.cnf :
# The skip-networkin option will no longer be set via debconf menu. You
# have to manually change it if you want networking i.e. the server
# listening on port 3306. The default is "disable" - for security
# reasons.
skip-networking
From: Orion Buckminster Montoya <orion@valla.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: MySQL Won't Bind to TCP Port 3306?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:55:17 -0500
> I've checked mysqld's config file and the values are correct.
What about skip-networking? It's separate from the values for which
port to use, a little further down. If you want networking to work,
you have to comment out that line. Have you done this?