> Hello! > > I've recently upgraded a server with MariaDB to OpenBSD 7.7. After following > everything I wanted to be sure that upgrading to 11.4 didn't result in > somehow installing the defaults removed when I originally installed (10.x) > and ran mariadb-secure-installation. > > However, running mariadb-secure-installation prints the following error: > > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local server through socket > '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) > > This makes sense as I have the following my.cnf: > > [client-server] > socket=/var/www/run/mysql/mysql.sock > #port=3306 > > It's possible this is not new behavior, but I wanted to see if this is > expected as I was thinking that it would use the configured socket location. > > Thank you, > > > Paul >
What happens if you add --socket=/var/www/run/mysql/mysql.sock to the command line when executing the script?

