The second command isn't working for me - the mysql server denies the connection from the host. Never had this problem with mysql on 2 other etch servers before but on this new server i'm setting up, mysql really pisses me off...

Even if i set the hostname to be the FQDN as shown on page 3 (what would be wrong - 'hostname' should return "hostname" and 'hostname -f' should return "hostname-domain.tld")

All i get is this:

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'host.domainname.de' failed
error: 'Host 'host.domainname.de' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server'