Bug #14441 mysql: unknown option '--skip-networking'
Submitted: 28 Oct 2005 21:22 Modified: 28 Jul 2006 4:32
Reporter: Bryce Nesbitt Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Administrator Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:Admin 1.2.7 MySQL 4.1.13 OS:Linux (SUSE Linux 10.0)
Assigned to: Alfredo Kojima CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: Server Configuration

[28 Oct 2005 21:22] Bryce Nesbitt
Description:
I check "disable networking" in MySQL administrator, because on a single user system this is a good idea.

Next time I start mysql, I get:
# mysql
mysql: unknown option '--skip-networking'

So I try to fix it:
# /usr/bin/mysqladmin
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: unknown option '--skip-networking'

How to repeat:
Check "disable networking" in MySQL administrator

Suggested fix:
This ought to be the default, actually, to disable networking.
[28 Oct 2005 21:29] Bryce Nesbitt
Note: I was using /usr/bin/mysql-administrator to make the original change.
[7 Dec 2005 16:39] Alfredo Kojima
What's the content of your my.cnf file that was output by Administrator? Can you attach it to the bug report? Thanks.
[10 Jul 2006 15:35] Bryce Nesbitt
No, I can't.  I no longer have that setup.
[28 Jul 2006 4:32] Alfredo Kojima
I've fixed related bugs in the my.cnf processing code, but none are exactly
as what you describe. Since you get the error when starting the mysql command line
client, my guess is that you picked the [mysql] section to edit from administrator
and then clicked on the skip networking option. That probably added 
skip-networking to [mysql], which caused the error you get. 

The my.cnf sections you can pick has been updated a while ago so you cannot edit
[mysql] anymore. So I'll close this bug, hope it's ok.