Quoting Reindl Harald <h.reindl@stripped>:
Odd that, so I added a mysql specific line to the hosts.allow
>
> who is using hosts.allow for protection instead a firewall in front
> of the machine
> or iptables (linux) / ipf (bsd)?
Its used for denyhosts as I mentioned.
>
>> As I said I can get it to restart just by doing a remote connect
>> from another server...
>
> reproduceable or was it a lucky hit once?
>
> if mysqld crashs ypu see normally something in the mysqld-error-log
> or in the syslog
> of the machine, until now ypu provided no silngle line about a crash
> from any log
Yes its reproduceable as I mentioned. I have provided all info from
the mysqld-error-log already, I haven't provided anything from syslog
as there is nothing there, as I mentioned. If you don't believe me I
can't provide it to you...