Re: creating a Unix socket

2001-11-12 Thread Erik Price
I've been a fool. I didn't realize that I had to use the following option when starting up the mysql daemon: --socket=/usr/local/mysql/run/mysql_socket I suppose that my instructions might have left this out. Normally the socket is created in /tmp (absolute pathname) right? But when I specifi

Re: creating a Unix socket

2001-11-12 Thread Bill Adams
Erik Price wrote: > Hello, > > Despite hours plumbing the MySQL documentation and Paul DuBois' book > "MySQL" (New Riders), I can't figure out what exactly creates the Unix > socket for local connections. For some reason no socket was created > during my setup, and I'm not sure how to go about m

creating a Unix socket

2001-11-12 Thread Erik Price
Hello, Despite hours plumbing the MySQL documentation and Paul DuBois' book "MySQL" (New Riders), I can't figure out what exactly creates the Unix socket for local connections. For some reason no socket was created during my setup, and I'm not sure how to go about making one. I compiled 3.23.44