On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:10:42PM -0700, Ginger Cheng wrote: > Hello, mysql Gurus, > Because of disk space issues, the data dir of my mysql DB is somewhere > else other than /var/lib/mysql. I did not link /var/lib/mysql to the real > data dir though. It works OK until I want to use perl DBI which complains > can't connect to mysql thru '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'. So I just create a > soft link of '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' pointing to the real socket and it > works. I am wondering if this is gonna give me any problem in the future.
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