Hi Jovan, Thanks for the reply. I have tried that but it still gave me the same error. I thought maybe I have to somehow tell sqlbox where mysql is installed.
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Jovan Kostovski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Kaone Mathuba <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I'm running kannel on openSUSE 11.1 with LAMPP. I have installed sqlbox. > > When I start it I get > > ERROR: MYSQL: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) > > how do I tell it to use /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock instead. > > Open your MySQL config file /etc/my.cnf or /etc/mysql/my.cnf and > edit the lines where the socket file is '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' > The lines have format > socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock > > which in your case should be: > socket = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock > > Make sure the user that runs the MySQL server can access that file ;) > > BR, Jovan >
