Re: mysql.sock

[Paul DuBois]

At 21:10 -0800 3/28/03, Joseph Bannon wrote:
>  > Pretty new: 3.22.2.   Only been around, oh, 5 years
>>  or so. :-)
>
>
>Well, looks like I've had my head in a hole.
>
>Here is my my.cnf file contents. Can you tell me
>what's wrong?

What's the full pathname? /etc/my.cnf?

>
>
>[mysqld]
>datadir=/home/mysqldb
>socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>

You should also tell the clients where the socket file is:

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

>[mysql.server]
>user=mysql
>basedir=/var/lib
>
>[safe_mysqld]
>err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
>pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid


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