Hello David, i've tested your configuration against a MySQL 4.1 server and it seems to work just fine to my eyes. The password you specified is 'pmacct' which is not the default one - 'arealsmartpwd'. The SQL table creation script uses such password by default.
Did you change it in the script aswell ? Or are you able to connect to the DB with 'pmacct' as both username and password ? Does the MySQL server listen over the usual 'mysql.sock' socket (if you don't know, you should be able to find it with 'netstat') or just on the TCP port ? If this is the case you should add to your configuration the line 'sql_host: 127.0.0.1'. Debugging such messy behaviours via strace or gdb is not that good; the solution should be to keep an eye to the logs and I'm working to return more explicit SQL server error messages; i don't actually know how to increase the MySQL log verbosity (anyone has idea ?). And about the mailing-list archives: archives are available for the subscribers but not searchable (that is, you have to dig through the messages manually). Let me know how things get evolved ! Cheers, Paolo
