Re: Socket problem in mysqld_safe for 4.0.16

Garey Mills <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Okay, but my.cnf defines a new socket and mysqld_safe does not pick it up.
Does mysqld_safe need an explicit argument apart from what's found in
my.cnf?

Garey Mills
Library Systems Office
UC Berkeley


On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:

> 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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