I've been a fool. I didn't realize that I had to use the following
option when starting up the mysql daemon:
--socket=/usr/local/mysql/run/mysql_socket
I suppose that my instructions might have left this out. Normally the
socket is created in /tmp (absolute pathname) right? But when I
specifi
Erik Price wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Despite hours plumbing the MySQL documentation and Paul DuBois' book
> "MySQL" (New Riders), I can't figure out what exactly creates the Unix
> socket for local connections. For some reason no socket was created
> during my setup, and I'm not sure how to go about m
