Hi,

Thanks for your help Arek, I've been able to solve the problem.


2011/5/3 Arek Kasprzyk <[email protected]>

> Hi Amadis,
> The user that you are using can be read only but needs to be able to
> connect from the host that you are running biomart server on and have access
> privileges to the database and tables that you want to query. First try to
> rule out all  potential 'non-biomart' problems. The simplest test is to try
> to query your database from mysql client running on the same host as your
> biomart server. If this works  writing a simple perl script querying the
> same tables and run it from the same host as your biomart server  to make
> sure that the DBI/DBD install works correctly.
>
> a
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> From: Amadis Pages <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 06:45:56 -0400
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [BioMart Users] MySQL user privileges
>
> Hi,
>
> I've recently installed Biomart in order to make some of my lab's data
> publicly available in the future.
>
> I'm using a *martDBLocation.xml*-style registry file. I've created a MySQL
> user with USAGE privileges on the database I'm using to store the data, but
> when I try to run the configure.pl script, the following error shows up:
>
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> COULD NOT CONNECT TO DATABASE xxxxxx.CHECK YOUR SETTINGS
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> What kind of permissions should I grant to the user that appears in the
> registry file? I do not feel comfortable giving this user privileges to
> modify the database content. Below you can find a copy-paste of the registry
> file:
>
> <MartDBLocation
>     ...
>     user         = "rgmartuser"
>     password     = "xxxxxxxxxx"
>     visible      = "1"
>     default      = ""
>     includeDatasets = ""
>     martUser     = ""
> />
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help. Please let me know if this is not
> the proper mail to send this kind of inquiries.
>
> Best regards,
> Amadís
>
>
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