Re: MYSQl under YDL CS-1.2


Subject: Re: MYSQl under YDL CS-1.2
From: Morten Rnseth (Morten.Ronseth@coil.no)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 10:52:02 MDT


on 8/21/00 5:35 PM, Paul J. Lucas at pjl@best.com wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Morten Rønseth wrote:
>
>> Just finished compiling and installing PHP & MySQL under CS 1.2.
>> I then try to connect to an MySQl server on a different machine, using the
>> command './mysql -h xxx.coil.no -u root -p' and get the following:
>>
>> "ERROR 1130: Host '' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server"
>
> MySQL is brain-damaged in that it doesn't permit spaces between
> options and arguments (for some arguments). That's why you get
> '' for the user. Try -uroot (no space).
>
> - Paul
>

Tried that too - and also, I *can* connect from other clients using the same
syntax...I can't even connect from a PHP script which I know works on other
servers.
What bugs me here is that the MySQl server doesn't seem to think the client
machine has a name, which it does, I've checked our DNS setup.

Cheers,

-Morten
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