Dear friends,

I am trying to configure knowledgetree with its fileindexer.

I need to start mysqld without the "skip networking" option. I looked into the config file /etc/my.cnf doesn't have the skip networking option in there. heres the my.cnf:

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock


[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid


Seems short and simple. No skip-networking option to be uncommented.
Someone teach me :

start mysqld
with the "--skip-networking" option.

but I don't want it to start with skip-networking, how do I do that? thanks a lot for taking time reading my mail!

What is your problem? If you want the skip-networking option add it else leave your configuration file like it is.

Hi mrcheeks,

Thanks for your help,

My problem is that, seems like my mysql cannot listen with TCP. I am trying to configure fileindexer for knowledgeTree, and getting error which might be caused by my mysql's inability to listen through TCP. Someone in forum told me to try

mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -P3306 , if it works then its listening through TCP. but I got error as below:

ERROR 1130: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

Someone also told me to mysql to listen through TCP, I have to comment the "skip networking" option so that it doesn't not skip networking.
I tried to do that but my my.cnf config file doesn't have such option, in fact my my.cnf is very simple and short as below:

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

My spec:
fc2
mysql-3.23.58-9
(Everything I am using comes with distribution)

So, what I need is to enable mysql to listen through TCP...but can't figure out how to...,,,
thanks a lot for your help sir.

Paste here exactly what happens when you type:

mysql -u root -p

do you have a firewall?

Dear friends,

Thanks a lot for helping! I have got it sorted out.
the error msg I got: ERROR 1130: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

What I did I just give permission to host = localhost.localdomain in mysql. After that it works....I am so stupid....

Now my indexer and archiver for knowledgetree works.

Thanks a lot guys for helping,