(I forgot to mention in my original message that I *had* commented out
the skip-networking directive in /etc/mysql/my.cnf; the directive would
have resulted in in the connection being refused; the problem here was
that the connection was immediately and silently closed.)
> $ telnet localhost 330
Hi, all. Here's the problem, in short:
$ telnet localhost 3306
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to acheloos.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
The connection is closed immediately; all 4 lines above are output in an
instant. Nothing's written in the log files.
I
