How can DBI use a database SERVER not a socket?
1) perl code segment
$host="sdb-74.hosting.stackcp.net"; #actually not used
$database="realger1_birding"; $user='realger1_observr'; $pass='birxxx';
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database",$user, $pass );
if ( ! $dbh ) { die "-- Failed to connect to MySQL
database:DBI->errstr()"; }
2) ERROR
DBI connect('realger1_birding','realger1_observr',...) failed: Can't
connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'
(2 "No such file or directory") at ./history.pl line 25.
3) cat ~/.my.cnf #only used by MySQL programs anyway
[mysql]
host=sdb-74.hosting.stackcp.net
4) platform:
uname -a
Linux ssh5.dfw.stackcp.net 3.10.0-1160.114.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar
20 15:54:52 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
5) perl -MDBI -e 'DBI->installed_versions'
Perl : 5.016003 (x86_64-linux-thread-multi)
OS : linux (3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64)
DBI : 1.627
DBD::mysql : 4.023
DBD::Sponge : 12.010002
DBD::Proxy : 0.2004
DBD::Gofer : 0.015326
DBD::File : 0.41
DBD::ExampleP : 12.014310
DBD::DBM : 0.08
