On Wednesday 09 July 2003 00:53, Nils Valentin wrote: > Hi Rudy, > > How about changing the port number in my.cnf and restarting the server ? > All clients will look on the wrong port number and not be able to connect. > That should do it while you take your backup. > > When finished change the port number back to 3306. >
Not a very good solution if you ask me, only takes one person to portscan the machine and find it... I'd rather go for the swapping the user table (or setting all hosts to an invalid host so nobody can connect) -- Andreas D. Landmark / noXtension -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
