Finding ports and services

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 11:32 -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Good morning folks -- Excuse the newbie question please, I am tired of
> banging my head on a wall here!
> 
> I am trying to configure a mysql server to use data on a physically
> separate server, where the data directory is shared over an NFS link
> 

Using NFS for this is not a good approach.  Let the mysql server on the
remote machine handle the database, and have your clients/applications
connect to the remote DB server.

The approach you are using is a recipe for corrupted data.

> Every time I try to start the MySQL server, I get an error that says:
> 
> 050713 11:00:09  mysqld started
> 050713 11:00:09 [Warning] Asked for 196608 thread stack, but got 126976
> 050713 11:00:09 [ERROR] Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address
> already in use
> 050713 11:00:09 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server
> running on port: 3306 ?
> 050713 11:00:09 [ERROR] Aborting
> 
> 050713 11:00:09 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
> 
> 050713 11:00:09  mysqld ended
> 
> I am trying to figure out how to tell if something is blocking or
> occupying the default MySQL port
> 
> I do not have telnet installed, so the trick of 
> 
> telnet srvfs-01:3306 will not work
> 
> I need to find out whats going on and blocking this port, as well, in a
> broader sense, I need to begin to develop some network troubleshooting
> tools for Linux,  If someone can point me to the appropriate references
> etc, I would be most grateful
> 
> Thanks
> 
> TIM
> 
> 
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