Your dbmail.conf states:

/var/run/mysql.sock

whereas your my.cnf states:

/var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock

ergo.


Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
> Hi Micah
> 
> I can manually connect and see the contents of 'dbmail' database using
> mysql client.
> 
> I can also connect using mysql-admin ,with server as 'localhost'.
> 
> I am attaching the my.cnf and debian.cnf .
> 
> regards and thanks
> 
> Nataraj
> 
> Micah wrote:
> 
>>
>> Can you connect manually (using the mysql client) from the dbmail
>> machine?
>>
>> Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Richard
>>>
>>> This is what i found :-
>>>
>>> wiredgsis:~# tail /var/log/mail.log
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> found value [dbmail]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> searching value for config item [user]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> found value
>>> [root]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> searching value for config item [pass]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> found value
>>> [rambo]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> searching valu               e for config item [sqlport]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> found value
>>> [3306]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> searching value for config item [sqlsocket]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: GetConfigValue():
>>> found value [/                           var/run/mysql.sock]
>>> Nov  4 17:32:18 localhost dbmail/adduser[4590]: dbmysql.c,db_connect:
>>> mysql_real                           _connect failed: Can't connect
>>> to MySQL server on 'ws077' (11
>>>
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Nataraj
>>>
>>> Richard Barrington wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Nataraj,
>>>>
>>>> It could be a few things, MySQL not running, bad password, etc, etc, so
>>>> please set the dbmail trace level to 5 and post the relevant log
>>>> entries.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Richard.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:09 +0000, Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a new user.  Getting the following. Is it a problem with mySql?
>>>>>
>>>>> I use Mysql  Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.24, for pc-linux-gnu (i386)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dbmail-2.0.7$ ./dbmail-users -a nataraj -w neetha
>>>>> Opening connection to database...
>>>>> Failed. Could not connect to database (check log)
>>>>> Command failed.
>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dbmail-2.0.7$  Plz help
>>>>>
>>>>> regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Nataraj
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> #
> # The MySQL database server configuration file.
> #
> # You can copy this to one of:
> # - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options,
> # - "/var/lib/mysql/my.cnf" to set server-specific options or
> # - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options.
> # 
> # One can use all long options that the program supports.
> # Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with
> # --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use.
> #
> # For explanations see
> # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html
> 
> # This will be passed to all mysql clients
> # It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes
> # escpecially if they contain "#" chars...
> # Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location.
> [client]
> port          = 3306
> socket                = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> 
> # Here is entries for some specific programs
> # The following values assume you have at least 32M ram
> 
> # This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently 
> parsed.
> [mysqld_safe]
> socket                = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> nice          = 0
> 
> [mysqld]
> #
> # * Basic Settings
> #
> user          = mysql
> pid-file      = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
> socket                = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> port          = 3306
> basedir               = /usr
> datadir               = /var/lib/mysql
> tmpdir                = /tmp
> language      = /usr/share/mysql/english
> #(Unknown option:)skip-external-locking
> #
> # Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
> # localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
> bind-address            =127.0.0.1
> #skip-networking = off
> #
> # * Fine Tuning
> #
> key_buffer            = 16M
> max_allowed_packet    = 16M
> thread_stack=128
> #
> # * Query Cache Configuration
> #
> query_cache_limit     = 1048576
> query_cache_size        = 16777216
> query_cache_type        = 1
> #
> # * Logging and Replication
> #
> # Both location gets rotated by the cronjob.
> # Be aware that this log type is a performance killer.
> log           = /var/log/mysql.log
> #log          = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
> #
> # Error logging goes to syslog. This is a Debian improvement :)
> #
> # Here you can see queries with especially long duration
> #log-slow-queries     = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
> #
> # The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication.
> #server-id            = 1
> log-bin                       = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
> # See /etc/mysql/debian-log-rotate.conf for the number of files kept.
> max_binlog_size               = 104857600
> #binlog-do-db         = include_database_name
> #binlog-ignore-db     = include_database_name
> #
> # * BerkeleyDB
> #
> # The use of BerkeleyDB is now discouraged and support for it will probably
> # cease in the next versions.
> #(Unknown option:)skip-bdb
> #
> # * InnoDB
> #
> # InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/.
> # Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many!
> #
> # * Security Feature
> #
> # Read the manual, too, if you want chroot!
> # chroot = /var/lib/mysql/
> #
> # If you want to enable SSL support (recommended) read the manual or my
> # HOWTO in /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/SSL-MINI-HOWTO.txt.gz
> # ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/cacert.pem
> # ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/server-cert.pem
> # ssl-key=/etc/mysql/server-key.pem
> innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> #Don't allow connections via TCP/IP.
> #skip-networking
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [mysqldump]
> quick
> quote-names
> max_allowed_packet    = 16M
> 
> [mysql]
> #no-auto-rehash       # faster start of mysql but no tab completition
> 
> [isamchk]
> key_buffer            = 16M
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # Automatically generated for Debian scripts. DO NOT TOUCH!
> [client]
> host     = localhost
> user     = debian-sys-maint
> password = z7U1oEP1xaiFrNx4
> socket   = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
> 
> 
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> 
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