Thank you very much. This did the trick! The /var/lib/mysql directory
needed to be readable and executable. I don't know why the Kernel upgrade
changed this but it's good now.
-Craig
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Gerald Clark wrote:
> The full path to the mysql.sock file must be readable, and searchable
> for
> the client to find and open the socket.
>
> Craig Cummings wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I recently upgraded my Linux kernel to 2.4.2 and my perl DBI/DBD
> > and now MySQL is behaving strangely. If I'm logged into my system as root
> > I can see that the mysql server is up and running and I can access it just
> > fine using either the root database login or a user login. However, if
> > I'm logged into Linux as a regular user I get an "ERROR 2002: Can't
> > connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'
> > (13)", even if I try to log in with the root database password. This
> > is also the case when my CGI scripts attempt to access MySQL using a
> > user login.
> > I checked the documentation on this but it seems stranger than
> > the described Error 2002 situations. The error log for the localhost
> > does not show any record of the failed connections. Any idea what's going
> > on here? Thanks, in advance, for your help.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Craig Cummings, Ph.D.
> >
> > Relman Laboratory
> > Stanford University School of Medicine
> > Department of Microbiology and Immunology
> >
> > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > phone: 650-498-5998
> > fax: 650-852-3291
> >
>
Craig Cummings, Ph.D.
Relman Laboratory
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 650-498-5998
fax: 650-852-3291
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