Jeff Weinberger wrote:
Hello again:
One more issue on which I would appreciate any help anyone can offer:
Yesterday I upgraded my postfix installation from 2.5.2 to 2.5.5 and
my MySQL installation from 5.0.51b to 5.0.75. Immediately after
restarting everything (the whole computer), I started seeing these
messages in my mail log:
Jan 1 09:48:35 s postfix/smtpd[13199]: warning: connect to mysql
server localhost: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/tmp' (38)
Jan 1 09:48:35 s postfix/cleanup[13201]: warning: connect to
mysql server localhost: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/tmp' (38)
Jan 1 09:48:42 s postfix/trivial-rewrite[13205]: warning:
connect to mysql server localhost: Can't connect to local MySQL server
through socket '/tmp'
(38)Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp'
/tmp isn't a socket, it's a directory.
Run:
mysql --xml -uroot -p -e "SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name = 'socket';"
to see where mysql has it's socket, then make sure that postfix is
looking for it there, or move the socket, or switch postfix and MySQL to
use a TCP socket.
If you're running chroot'ed the socket needs to be where postfix can
find it.
Terry
