Try 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. Mysql does silly things with localhost.
On Oct 20, 2011 11:55 AM, Kat uncommon...@gmail.com wrote:
it gets weirder - it connects, drops, connects, gens an error, then
does it again
I have found some of these around the net. Others have reported it,
but have not found definitive fixes - anyone else seeing this?
2011/10/20 10:46:58 ossec-dbd: Connected to database 'ossec' at
'localhost'.
2011/10/20 10:46:59 ossec-dbd: INFO: Started (pid: 10527).
2011/10/20 10:47:00 ossec-dbd(5210): INFO: Attempting to reconnect to
database.
2011/10/20 10:47:00 ossec-dbd(5202): ERROR: Error connecting to
database 'localhost'(ossec): ERROR: Unknown MySQL server host
'localhost' (0).
On Oct 20, 9:36 am, Kat uncommon...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, if you can do
mysql -u ossecuser -p
and login to mysql
then why can't ossec connect with the same info?
ossec-dbd(5202): ERROR: Error connecting to database
??
