Hello.
> host when I have hostnames in the 'user' table. It will only
> work with ip addresses. (This is where I came in originally).
Are you sure that you're running MySQL without --skip-name-resolve? See:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/dns.html
>
> I think I must have had my head screwed on the wrong way round
> when I was looking at the log file. I've deleted it now, but
> I think what I was seeing was the remains of the logging generated
> by the prev version of mySQL (3.23) just before I upgraded to
> 4.1. No new logfile has been generated since deleting this.
> Sorry to waste your time!
>
> BUT - I still cant get mysqld to let me connect from a remote
> host when I have hostnames in the 'user' table. It will only
> work with ip addresses. (This is where I came in originally).
> And the distributed Alpha binary doesnt jhave the debug option
> compiled in, so I guess I'll have to build it from scratch
> to investigate further.
>
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>>
>>What version of MySQL are you running?
>
> 4.1 precompiled Alpha binaries.
>
> Thanks,
> Terry.
>
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>>"T. Horsnell" <tsh@stripped> wrote:
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>>> Someone kindly replied to my log query today, but I unfortunately
>>
>>> deleted the message.
>>
>>> They referred me to this URL:
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>>>
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>>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/query-log.html
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>>>
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>>> Trouble is, I dont start mysqld with the --log= option,
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>>> and yet it still insists on logging. How do I disable this?
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>>> (My current method is to use --log=/dev/null but I'm sure
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>>> this cant be the best way). I cant find any evidence of
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>>> a my.cnf anywhere, so I dont think it is due to an unexpected
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>>> config-file option
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>>> Terry.
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>>>
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>>
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