Thank you Robert for the prompt response.
1) Yes, I do have /etc/my.cnf (644 permission)
2) I do have a bind-address directive but it was set to "127.0.0.0" by
default. I even changed it to "127.0.0.1" and restarted MySQL; no
luck.
3) my.cnf's socket file path and name in both [client] and [mys
1) Do you have a /etc/my.cnf ?
2) In this do you have the bind-address directive set?
i.e. [ bind-address = 127.0.0.1] this is the default for debian
packages versions.
3) Also confirm the my.cnf reflects the mysql.sock path properly as
well.
Robert Allen, zce
Operations, FIO Labs LLC