Re: DBI:mysql Can't connect to local MySQL server

[Thimble Smith]

At 17:50, 19991005, Gregory McCann wrote:
>DBI:mysql was looking for the socket file in /tmp/mysql.sock when it
>was actually in /usr/home/myusername/tmp/mysql.sock.

That's interesting....  Of course it does make sense.

>Though I don't understand why the mysql command interface does not have
>a problem with this also.

Perhaps you have a .my.cnf file in your home directory that tells the
client where to look?

Tim