I emerged MySQL (version 4.0.15). When it runs (either via mysqld_safe or via the init.d script) it works fine from the command line, but not from other machines or the local machine via telnet: telnet localhost 3306 Trying 192.168.1.3... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused When I start mysqld directly (--bind-address=192.168.1.3) it works fine (so it's not a firewall problem or anything like that). This didn't happen when I installed mysql from source on non-Gentoo, so I'm assuming (and rather hoping) that this is a Gentoo issue. (I also added a bug on MySQL directly about mysqld_safe not having a --bind-address option). Brian
edit the config file the default is to only bind to 127.0.0.1 for obvious security reasons
