Sorry, I must be doing something stupid here but I can't figure it out.

section of bacula-dir.conf

# Generic catalog service
Catalog {
   Name = MyCatalog
# Uncomment the following line if you want the dbi driver
# dbdriver = "dbi:sqlite3"; dbaddress = 127.0.0.1; dbport =
   dbname = "bacula;" DB Address = "127.0.0.1"; dbuser = "bacula"; 
dbpassword = "XXX"
}

when I connect by hand with mysql, it works fine
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u bacula -p -e 'show tables;' bacula > /tmp/mysfile

Tables_in_bacula
BaseFiles
CDImages
Client
Counters
Device
File
FileSet
Filename
Job
JobHisto
JobMedia
Location
LocationLog
Log
Media
MediaType
Path
PathHierarchy
PathVisibility
Pool
Status
Storage
UnsavedFiles
Version

netstat confirms that mysql is listening on 127.0.0.1:3306

This is a fresh install of ubuntu 11.04 that I am building into a backup 
server. mysql and bacula were installed from .deb files.

thanks,
jerry

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