connection question

2001-11-15 Thread Brent Simpson
I've been reading up on this most of the day and still can't get it! I need to use PHP to make connections to MySQL. When I use my actual host name to make the connection I get this: Warning: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) in /var/www/html/php/db_mysql.inc on l

my.cnf file

2001-10-31 Thread Brent Simpson
I'm trying to configure MySQL to run on my Mandrake 8.1 box. The Linux install automatically installed MySQL, albeit in some pretty strange places, but it's there and running upon startup. I would like to modify it so that it is not running as 'root' though on startup. I've read a lot of the docu