mysqld and mysql

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> Probably you may need to give perms to the user, in this scenary, root, with 
> something like:
> 
> grant all on *.* to 'root'@'IPBOXA' identified by 'whatever';

You're quite right, but also because Azeem didn't paste the actual error
message, it can additionally be that he needs to open the server box
firewall

# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
# service iptables save

-Andy