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Re: [Sheflug] Perl:DBI

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Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Perl:DBI
From: Dave Mitchell <davem [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:59:44 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:27:36PM +0100, Steve Tickle wrote:
> A very quick question:-
> 
> I'm trying to connect to a MySQL database using Perl:DBI. I get the error 
> "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'" which seems fair enough since mysqld.sock is 
> to be found in /tmp.
> 
> My question is, how/where do I tweak to get Perl:DBI to look in the right 
> place?

If its configurable, it will be documented in DBD::MySQL as part of the
connection string details.


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