cello Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Hi A distant friend setup a basic database using Mysql + PHP that allowed webusers to logon to my website using username / password. This stopped working a while ago and I only now have sometime to look into it. When I SSH into the server and run Mysqladmin or mysql I get the connect socket error. Looking at the my.cnf file the socket is pointing to ... socket=/home/virtual/FILESYSTEMTEMPLATE/.mysqlsock/mysql.sock I can only imagine that as my friend in question hosts a few websites he used templates tomake things easier. The problem to me is that socket path is wrong but I am not sure what to change it to. I cannot find a mysql.sock file on my system so I was going to creat one in /tmp but fear that will not work either. I gather that if I could stop / restart the daemon the mysql process would regenerate a mysql.sock BUT the problem is I dont have su access! I have tried to contact my webmaster but he is proving hard to contact. Any help would be appreciated.............a dumb question i know!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 There's a refman page on sockets that might be helpful here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cello Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 Hi sorry been away... is that a man page on sockets? Any help appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Yes, but a mysql-specific one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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