Re: Socket problem in mysqld_safe for 4.0.16

Sinisa Milivojevic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Garey Mills writes:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> 	On line 117 of mysqld_safe in the 4.0.16 source distribution, the
> socket name (/tmp/mysql.sock) is hard coded. I noticed this when I
> installed 4.0.16 alongside an older version and then started 4.0.16.
> Although I had set the socket to a different location in $MYSQL_HOME/var,
> 4.0.16 obligingly deleted the older version's socket.
> 
> 
> 
> Garey Mills
> Library Systems Office
> UC Berkeley
> 

Hi!

Thank you for your message.

Actually, that is the last option for the socket location.

If neither --socket option is supplied to mysqld_safe, nor is
MYSQL_UNIX_PORT defined as environmental variable, then some path has
to be specified.

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