Tomcat connecting to MySQL - Ubuntu 8.10 Server

[Ambrose Krapacs]

On Nov 16, 2008, at 21:44 , Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> Ambrose Krapacs wrote:
>> Perhaps you are on to something here. Below is the output from 3
>> attempts to telnet to localhost on port 3306. Something doens't seem
>> right..
>>
>> ambrose at ubuntusrvr:~$ telnet localhost 3306
>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> Connected to localhost.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> =
>> 5.0.67-0ubuntu6
pOw,olQ3,FIyF1c!tIO2IConnection closed by foreign  
>> host.
>> ambrose at ubuntusrvr:~$ telnet 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/>  3306
>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> Connected to 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/>.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> =
>> 5.0.67-0ubuntu6Ha2pbz^H,,BG|^AimiF_/Connection closed by foreign  
>> host.
>> ambrose at ubuntusrvr:~$ telnet 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/> 3306
>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> Connected to 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1/>.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> =
>> 5.0.67-0ubuntu6 /;{zsT(i,\o;vcjk\k'|\Connection closed by foreign  
>> host.
>
> That would suggest to me that you are talking to Mysql, but it does  
> not
> like what telnet is sending it (expected of course!). Have you got a
> Mysql log file around somewhere - usually called <your hostname>.err  
> and
> located in whatever datadir Mysql uses on Ubuntu (not sure where it  
> goes
> in Debian based distros). This may have more useful error messages  
> in it
> - telling you why the Java connector is being refused a connection...
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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I found a couple log files that seem to be associated with mysql but  
they were all empty. I also checked tomcat log files with no luck.