On 3/15/07, FamiLink Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to connect to a database using a small script but get this
error:
failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' perl
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Am I doing something wrong?
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Try the following instead of using the environment variable.
my $host = the machine the db is on, localhost if local;
my $port = the port mysql is listening on;
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;port=$port";
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