mySQL on Red Hat 7.2

Anon

I have mySQL installed on a box running Red Hat 7.2. The database is running fine, the only problem is that it is not accepting connections to 3006. I have done a web search for this on the net and have found some sites saying that I need to remove a skip-networking option on safe_mysqld. Looked there and in my.cnf, skip networking in is neither of those. Any help would be appreciated.

Anon

Have you tried port 3306? That's the default port for MySQL, not 3006.

Assuming that is a typo, have you checked for 'bind-address' ? Are you sure the database server is binding to the IP address you think it should be binding to?

And finally, are you able to get any kind of connection? Is it a permission problem with the username you are using to connect, or can you not get anything at all?

Have you tried to telnet to that port to see if anything is there? telnet SERVER 3306 ?

-- Jason

Anon

I can't get anything when I telnet to 3306. It was a typo by the way. I can login to mysql from the machine just fine. There are many PHP pages currently using the db also. The real problem I'm having is that users would like to use mySQLfront from their windows desktops to modify the database. I basically need to figure out how to enable them to log on through port 3306. Thanks.