can't connect to mysql

albi at scii.nl albi at scii.nl
Sun May 15 14:14:35 PDT 2005


On Sun, 15 May 2005 16:17:01 -0400
Eric Cheney <cheney at soc.umass.edu> wrote:

> > you have to specifically enable it in /etc/rc.conf :
> > 
> > mysql_enable="YES"
> > 
> > it's documented in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh
> 
> Thank you; that did it!  My apologies for not reading the
> documentation---but I didn't know that's where I'd find the answer.

well, i just found out by looking into that file, rather than reading
any documentation ;-)

however in FreeBSD 5.x more and more services start to use the
"enable-option", which is very nice i think, it's very useful in a
jail-setup with shared nullfs-mounted directories

> And thanks for the quick response....I think I waited all of 10
> minutes!
> 
> I have to say FreeBSD is just terrific.  I used FreeBSD for about
> nine months about 2 or 3 years ago.  I loved it then, but had to
> move to another unix-like OS for reasons that had nothing to do with
> FreeBSD.  I put 5.4 on a machine Friday night and it has just been a
> terrific experience.  I'm amazed about how "current" the software
> is, and yet it seems to be a very stable release.  And now I get
> help from the list in about 10 minutes!  People really should feel
> proud about FreeBSD.  Great work!  Many thanks to all....

i agree, esp. the jails and ports i enjoy a lot, e.g last week i needed
to get a database-backup used with mysql 3.x from a linux-machine
working on a newer linux-setup with mysql 4.x, and that backup refused
to "load properly"

then on a freebsd-machine i installed mysql 3.x, used the
database-backup on that, did a mysqldump, and then it worked fine on the
linux-machine

of course on linux i could have removed the mysql 4.x and compile mysql
3.x from source, but that would have taken quite a bit more time

yes, FreeBSD rocks :)



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