[Labs-l] MySQL server error

[Jeremy Baron]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
<emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I coded a script that uses several wiki databases and servers. When I
> manually execute it, it works fine, but after adding it to cron, it returns
> this error:
[...]
> _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2005, "Unknown MySQL server host
> 's3.labsdb' (0)")

Sounds like whatever host you end up running on is missing /etc/hosts entries.

See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help#Connecting_to_the_database_replicas_from_other_Labs_instances

-Jeremy