I added the skip-networking option to my MySQL config in an effort to remove unnecessary ports from my Internet facing server. I didn’t realize until the next morning that openfired process froze up. I’m running the tar.gz package of openfired on a RHEL 5 server and the configs are pretty much standard. Is there a way to configure openfired so it will use MySQL through a local socket connection rather than TCP/IP? If not, anyone know how (or where I can find out how) to restrict MySQL to accept connections on that port (3306) from only 127.0.0.1?
Thank you.