While that is definitely the kind of pinheaded mistake that I'm used to
making, that's not what's happening.  I just looked at the file again and
mysql.server is also ignoring things like the pid file and the log file :(

thanks anyway

At 12:51 PM 2/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
>make sure that you set the sock parameter in both the [client] and [mysqld] 
>sections of the configuration file.  This is one of my favorite errors :-/
>
>Best,
>Kyle
>
>On Monday 26 February 2001 12:04, Joel Gwynn wrote:
>> I tried /etc/my.cnf and got the same results.  As far as $DATADIR or $HOME
>> are concerned, I don't see them when I do 'printenv'.  Is there another way
>> to find out if those may be set, and by what?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> At 02:33 PM 2/26/01 -0500, Kent Hoover wrote:
>> >Sorry. Sent the last message before I was done....
>> >
>> >If you have a stray $DATADIR/my.cnf or a $HOME/.my.cnf, their
>> >contents will override what you have set in /etc/my.cnf.
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >
>> >Kent
>> >
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