[mythtv-users] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Sep 27 15:51:39 EDT 2004


On Monday 27 September 2004 03:31 pm, Greg Donald wrote:
> I have this in the file:
> > cat /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt|grep -v ^#
>
> DBHostName=localhost
> DBUserName=mythtv
> DBPassword=mythtv
> DBName=mythtvconverg
>
> Is this where I can tell mythtv my mysql.sock is in /tmp?  If so what
> is the variable name I should use?  DBSocket perhaps?

You don't tell it - that information is handled entirely by the mysql client 
library, and has absolutely nothing to do with mythtv.

Isaac


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