On 12/4/12 12:58 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote: > > - groveling once more for my friends to take pity on me and point me in > some useful direction.
I'm joining this thread late, but on my Mac which has MySQL installed I issued the following sequence to find the sock file for the running MySQL: mac-2:~ pmcnett$ which mysql /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql mac-2:~ pmcnett$ cd /usr/local/mysql mac-2:mysql pmcnett$ ll total 96 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19071 Jan 11 2008 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5139 Jan 11 2008 EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8530 Apr 17 2008 INSTALL-BINARY -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1410 Jan 11 2008 README drwxr-xr-x 73 root wheel 2482 Jul 15 2008 bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 801 Apr 17 2008 configure drwxr-x--- 16 _mysql wheel 544 Nov 29 12:00 data drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Apr 17 2008 docs drwxr-xr-x 68 root wheel 2312 Apr 17 2008 include drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 544 Apr 17 2008 lib drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Apr 17 2008 man drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 544 Apr 17 2008 mysql-test drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 17 2008 scripts drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Apr 17 2008 share drwxr-xr-x 31 root wheel 1054 Apr 17 2008 sql-bench drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 544 Nov 3 2011 support-files drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 680 Apr 17 2008 tests mac-2:mysql pmcnett$ ll support-files/ total 352 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3316 Apr 17 2008 MySQL-shared-compat.spec -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3383 Jan 11 2008 compiler_warnings.supp -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 773 Jan 11 2008 magic -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4933 Apr 17 2008 my-huge.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20910 Apr 17 2008 my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4909 Apr 17 2008 my-large.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4916 Apr 17 2008 my-medium.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2486 Apr 17 2008 my-small.cnf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 41921 Apr 17 2008 mysql-5.0.51b.spec -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 839 Apr 17 2008 mysql-log-rotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11147 Apr 17 2008 mysql.server -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41921 Apr 17 2008 mysql.spec -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 926 Apr 17 2008 mysqld_multi.server -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 589 Apr 17 2008 ndb-config-2-node.ini mac-2:mysql pmcnett$ grep sock support-files/my-small.cnf socket = /tmp/mysql.sock socket = /tmp/mysql.sock # All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes. mac-2:mysql pmcnett$ ll /tmp/mysql.sock srwxrwxrwx 1 _mysql wheel 0 Nov 29 12:00 /tmp/mysql.sock I hope it helps but as I said I came late to the conversation. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
