[Just to reiterate what we discussed on IRC for those following along at home.]
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005, Andres Salomon wrote: > Nope; nagios's resource.cfg was totally unconfigured. What I suspect > (I can tell you for sure tomorrow, when I'm at work) is that one of > the default mysql users (the '' user) was not removed; so, nagios > could connect with user '', and no password. Just doing a fresh > mysql-server install and a nagios-mysql install gets me: > > Jun 2 23:56:10 spiral nagios: Error: Could not lock status data tables > in database '' > Jun 2 23:56:40 spiral last message repeated 2 times > Jun 2 23:57:40 spiral last message repeated 4 times > > Same type of error, though not nearly as frequently. You couldn't get this unless you allow a blank user to connect to mysql, which isn't the default configuration of mysql-server. > Only if you've modified the mysql.user table to not accept a blank user. By default, the only users are 'root' and 'debian-sys-maint'. Don Armstrong -- "A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'..." -- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]