Yes I have. The hostname of the box returned with 'hostname' is the fqdn and is in the format of blah.1.2.3.net.
Drew On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:16, Victor Pendleton wrote: > Can you check the host name again? You have a five segment address. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Hall > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 7/28/04 3:55 PM > Subject: connection problems > > Greetings, > > I have what I hope is an easy problem. I have installed mysql 4.0.20 > and when I execute mysqladmin to set the root password using the -h flag > my hostname is truncated, and I get a connection refused message. > > The hostname on this box is a fqdn like blah.1.2.3.net. My command line > is "mysqladmin -u root -h blah.1.2.3.net password 'test'" > > mysqladmin -u root -h blah.1.2.3.net password "test" > /path/to/mysql/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'blah.1.2.3.net' > failed > error: 'Host 'blah' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server' > > Can anyone shed any light on why the hostname is being truncated? Am I > missing something obvious here? > > Thank you in advance, > > Andrew > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
