Am 10.09.2011 16:07, schrieb a.sm...@ukgrid.net: > Then I thought, what if I have hosts.allow misconfigured and its wide open > maybe a remote system is connecting and > messing with it. But hosts.allow was correct (mysql not listed, so denied by > the last all:all). I tested connecting > from a remote server, guess what? Mysql daemons restarted in exactly the way > I was seeing each 7 mins, each time > just by simply running: > > mysql -h tau > > Odd that, so I added a mysql specific line to the hosts.allow
who is using hosts.allow for protection instead a firewall in front of the machine or iptables (linux) / ipf (bsd)? > As I said I can get it to restart just by doing a remote connect from another > server... reproduceable or was it a lucky hit once? if mysqld crashs ypu see normally something in the mysqld-error-log or in the syslog of the machine, until now ypu provided no silngle line about a crash from any log
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