пытаюсь сконнектиться c другой машины
telnet 10.0.0.10 3306
но безуспешно..
думал firewall, там все чисто(это точно)

после неудачной попытке соединения в логах вот чего пишет:
в /var/log/mysql/mysqld.log

Number of processes running now: 1
mysqld process hanging, pid 31141 - killed
041021 14:58:21 mysqld restarted
/usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections

в /var/log/messages

041013 9:58:31 Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Address already in use
041013 9:58:31 Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306?

если что вот доп. инфа

bash-2.05b# mysqladmin --u=root --pass version
Enter password:

mysqladmin Ver 8.23 Distrib 3.23.52, for pc-linux-gnu on i686Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult ABThis software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

Server version 3.23.52
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime: 8 min 44 sec

Threads: 4 Questions: 34004 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 62 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 56 Queries per second avg: 64.893Press any key to continue...

файл my.cnf

[client]
port =3306
socket =/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
port =3306
socket =/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-locking
set-variable = key_buffer=16M
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=1M
set-variable = table_cache=64
set-variable = sort_buffer=512K
set-variable = net_buffer_length=8K
set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size=8M
set-variable = thread_concurrency=2
skip-innodb

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

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