> i googled a bit and found this related to fedora3 and SELinux: > http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,20759,21482#msg-21482
I had seen that page, but didn't know what selinux was (thought it was a distro!) so I thought it was irrelevant. After checking it out, it turns out that that's what the problem is/was! I disabled selinux and the first test after rebooting seems to have worked. I don't believe I need selinux for anything, as our environment's pretty well controlled and we've made do without it for.. well forever, but I'll probably have to learn about it eventually so I suppose I'll start looking into it... Thanks a million Matthias. I'm kind of embarrassed that I was looking at the answer yesterday and dismissed it... :\ For Glen and the archives: I disabled selinux by setting the SELINUX environment variable to "disabled" in /etc/selinux/config and rebooting. Thanks again, St-
