MySQL Advice

[Gerard Samuel]

On Sunday 20 June 2004 02:48 pm, Graham Bentley wrote:
> freebsd# /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h freebsd.mydomain.com password
> mypassword
>
> /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'freebsd.mydomain.com'
> failed error: 'Host 'freebsd.mydomain.com' is not allowed to connect to
> this MySQL server'
>
> freebsd# /usr/local/bin/mysql --password

Im assuming you're talking about the error when trying to connect via 
mysqladmin.
Have you tried taking out the host option like ->
 /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root password mypassword

Just a guess