Thanks for that but I was hoping there was a way to do it "live" that
didn't require restarting/reloading. Something to do at the mysql>
prompt. We had to repair a table and all the backed up connections were
threatening to take down the daemon.
Mikhail Berman wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> In my.cn
Hi Chris,
In my.cnf in the following section, remove comment from skip-networking
statement, and re-start your MySQL
# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security
enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld mu