Remember guys, I went through this on the phpmyadmin list before
turning here.
I was told to run the command 'mysqladmin variables' to find out
where the the socket was; I did that successfully and it showed up
at /var/mysql/mysql.sock.
And viola, now with mysqld running, it does show up there, at /var/
mysql/mysql.sock.
When I shutdown mysqld it is gone, from /var/mysql.
(Btw, once in a recent post of mine, Philip referred to my leaving
out the leading / at 'var', that was simply a typo and it was in the
script post.)
So, running 'mysql variables' is giving me the socket path and I'm
still lost as to what's going why I cannot connect with a simple php
script.
Help?! I'll look for the mysql error log.
Gil
On May 29, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Philip George wrote:
mysql.sock is created by mysqld when it starts, and destroyed when
it stops.
haha. you're absolutely right. that doesn't make any sense. i
wasn't thinking about the nature of socket files when i wrote that.
now that i go back and read the post i was referring to, i think
the poster was actually talking about the privileges of the
enclosing folder, not the socket itself. my bad.
but, regardless, i think it's a path problem anyway, as i mentioned
earlier.
pardon the misfire. running on zero sleep.
- philip
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