On 20.7.2011 23:07, Keith Roberts wrote: > This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld > with a clean error log, I get the following messages: > > 110720 21:38:47 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for > connections. > Version: '5.5.14-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' > port: 2500 MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi > > 110720 21:38:48 [Warning] Access denied for user > 'UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER'@'localhost' (using password: NO) > > The strange things is, AFAIK there are no clients trying to > connect to mysql. I shutdown a mysql CLI monitor I had > running, and did the restart again. > > So I'm just wondering why I get this message, when AFAIK > there is nothing that should be trying to connect to mysql - > unless it's a server daemon running somewhere? > > Has anyone else come across this funny error message? Please have a look at the initscript /etc/init.d/mysqld ...snip # Spin for a maximum of N seconds waiting for the server to come up. # Rather than assuming we know a valid username, accept an "access # denied" response as meaning the server is functioning. snap... -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110721/c2b6fa68/attachment-0005.sig>