Error connecting to master

[chan pat]

Hello!

Hello!

I'm trying to set up replication between two servers and even though I
did everything according to the documentation, the slave keeps failing
to connect to the master like this:

050721 17:31:52 [ERROR] Slave I/O thread: error connecting to master 'repluser@192.168.8.16:3306': Error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.8.16' (13)' errno: 2003 retry-time: 60 retries: 86400

050721 17:31:52 [Note] Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log 'FIRST' at position 0, relay log './localhost-relay-bin.000001' position: 4


But when I try to connect with mysql-client myself, using the same host,
same user and same password, I get in correctly.

On master's my.cnf

[mysqld]
log-bin=mysql-bin
server-id=1
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[mysqld_safe]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

On slave's my.cnf

[mysqld]
server-id=2
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[mysqld_safe]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

I have done everything according to the books. The GRANT originally was
'GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO ...' but during my tries to fix this
I tried other grants with the privileges shown above... I locked the
tables, copied everything, recorded the position, etc, etc...

I can login doing:

| shell> mysql -u repl -h xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -p
| Password:
| mysql>


I am using Fedora Core 4 and MySQL 4.1.11

Can anybody tell me what is missing?

Thanks
Pat


I have set up the replication in