I installed the mysql-server-5.1 package on Debian 6. Changed the bind-address to 10.100.1.10 (for internal use), and when I reboot the server it doesn't start up mysql. This is what the syslog says:
Jul 24 18:04:39 server0 mysqld:
Jul 24 18:04:39 server0 mysqld_safe: mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended
Jul 24 18:04:46 server0 kernel: [ 13.786387] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Jul 24 18:04:48 server0 /etc/init.d/mysql[1419]: 0 processes alive and '/usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping' resulted in
Jul 24 18:04:48 server0 /etc/init.d/mysql[1419]: #007/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
Jul 24 18:04:48 server0 /etc/init.d/mysql[1419]: error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Jul 24 18:04:48 server0 /etc/init.d/mysql[1419]: Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!
Jul 24 18:04:48 server0 /etc/init.d/mysql[1419]: