Hi,
I think you have at least two ways:
1.To put the corect path to the sock file, in my.cnf configuration file.
2.To find where MySQL daemon create this file and add the argument -S to
the mysql client application.
Regards,
Gelu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Murad Nayal" <mn216@stripped>
Cc: <mysql@stripped>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:42 PM
Subject: forcing mysql client to use TCP socket?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> how can I force mysql interactive client (actually the client library as
> well) to use a TCP port on the local host
>
> if I do:
>
> mysql -h localhost -u user -p --port=2000
>
> I get:
>
> ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/tmp/mysql.sock'
>
> what might be a problem is: it seems, for reasons I don't entirely
> understand possibly related to the network configuration on this node, I
> need to use the name 'localhost' rather than the actual name of the
> node!
>
> thanks in advance for the help
>
> Murad
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