Greetings
I am running mysql 5.0.21 installed from source on a Dell PowerEdge 6450 with 4
dual-core Xeons running RedHat Enterprise v4.
I installed DBI 1.5 from source and DBD:mysql 3.003 from source.
mysql_config yields:
Usage: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config [OPTIONS]
Options:
--cflags [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql]
--include [-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql]
--libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz
-lcrypt -lnsl -lm]
--libs_r [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient_r -lz
-lpthread -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread]
--socket [/tmp/mysql.sock]
--port [3306]
--version [5.0.21]
--libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqld -lz -lpthread
-lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread -lrt]
/etc/my.cnf also points to /tmp/mysql.sock.
If I try to access the database through the DBD/DBI perl interface on its host
machine, it fails because it can't a socket at /var/lib/mysql.sock. I can't
find a way to convince it that it should use /tmp/mysql.sock. The documentation
says it uses the client's definition, but that should be /tmp/mysql.sock. I
found on the mysql:install forum that one can use 127.0.0.1 rather than
localhost and this in fact works OK. But, can someone tell how to affect where
DBD or DBI looks for the socket?
Thanks
Mike
