Well, this is a client error, not a server error.
What client is this?
Maybe you have another my.cnf in the data directory,
or possibly a .my.cnf file in your home directory.
BW (ST) wrote:
> I'm trying to use a socket besides the standard /tmp/mysql.sock one. I've
> tried specifying socket=/path/to/socket in both [client] and [mysqld]
> sections of my.cnf, and I've tried to edit safe_mysqld directly with this
> path. In all cases, the mysql server appears to start (no error messages
> are generated when I run S99mysql start, anyway), but I get the "ERROR 2002:
> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)"
> message.
>
> I'm guessing that some other file is overwriting the my.cnf settings so that
> the server still expects connections to come through the /tmp/mysql.sock
> socket. I can't, however, figure out which file that is/may be.
>
> In consulting the docs, all I can glean is that (1) I'm using the wrong
> socket file which is precisely what I'm attempting to do, or (2) per the
> third-to-last bullet at the bottom of p.571 of the mysql manual, I need to
> somehow notify the clients of the new path. I believe this is where I'm
> stuck since I thought the [client] setting in my.cnf was suppose to do this.
>
> All help to sort this out is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
>
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