Re: Telnet connection to MySQL

[Paul DuBois]

At 9:11 PM +0200 01-28-2000, Ville Mattila wrote:
>Hey there!
>
>When I'm trying to connect my MySQL server via telnet (localhost, 
>port 3306), MySQL says that "Bad handshake". First there come some 
>rows like this:
>     (
>      3.22.29-shareware-debug ,d5z+'&:,
>
>Then if I press any key, there comes text "Bad handshake" after those mess.
>
>What I can do? What's the matter?


You don't telnet to the MySQL server, you use a client program such as
mysql, mysqladmin, mysqlshow, mysqldump, etc.

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped