>>>>> "nathaniel" == nathaniel c daiger <nate@stripped> writes:
>> Well, lessee. Yes, it looks like you should be able to connect with that
>> first command. Do you have a ~/.my.cnf file that's specifying some
>> other user name, by chance?
>>
nathaniel> no, this is definitely not it. it really doesn't matter what mysql name i
nathaniel> use....just the unix name. i can connect as root w/ any mysql name, but it
nathaniel> won't work when i'm logged in as a normal user. it's not specific to the
> unix
nathaniel> name nate or the mysql name nate. why would i need to be root to connect?
nathaniel> i'm pretty sure this isn't like some sort of mysql security thing. unless
> of
nathaniel> course you can tell mysql not to let a user connect unless he/she is
nathaniel> priviliedged (in unix)....can you do that?
nathaniel> other stuff: i can't do something like this: [nate@host] $ mysql -u root -p
nathaniel> it doesn't matter what mysql name i give (even mysql's root account.) if i'm
> not
nathaniel> unix root, i can't CONNECT to mysql. and the error isn't like "HEY! you're
> not
nathaniel> allowed to connect!" it's more like "i don't know how to connect!"
nathaniel> and as far as i know, the error 2002 thing has mostly been related to dumb
nathaniel> people doing a bad install from an rpm.
nathaniel> i'm not dumb, didn't use an rpm, and this used to be a working mysql install
> (we
nathaniel> stopped using the machine as our sql server and moved the db's to a new
nathaniel> machine, but nowi'm setting up the broken machine to be a dev server.
> except
nathaniel> now mysql seems to be broken.)
Hi!
When you are logged in as root, please do the following:
mysqladmin ver
This will list something like:
UNIX socket /tmp/mysql.sock
What is the mode of this file? Please mail the result of:
ls -l /tmp/mysql.sock
Does the following work (as a normal user):
mysqladmin -h 'your-hostname' ver
By the way; What MySQL version and OS are you using and how did you
compile MySQL. Please respond with the mysqlbug script!
Regards,
Monty
