[las_users] MySQL problem with LAS 6.5.1.2 on Mandriva 10.2

[Hartmut Frenzel <frenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello there,

thanks to the first tip in this message
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/Mail_Archives/fu_2005/msg00210.html

(i.e. modify line 1689 in configure.pl back and forth, the version

} elsif ($module eq 'URI' || $module eq 'URI:URL') {

doesn't work for me), I got LAS installed, and "sort of running".

Now I have the second problem from the same message, i.e. the MySQL 
connection doesn't work, the error message in the browser is

javax.servlet.ServletException: Server connection failure during 
transaction. Due to underlying exception: 'java.net.SocketException: 
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused'.


I can't figure out what Rob did, and there doesn't seem to be anything 
in the LAS documentation. So far, I ran the configure and startserver.sh 
scripts as root. During the configure process, I also set root as the 
MySQL account.

Do I have to create a las user for MySQL with mysqladmin, and use that 
in configure?
Or run configure as a non-root user?

My version of MySQL is MySQL-4.1.11-1mdk

I appreciate your help. Thanks a lot!
-- Hartmut