From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 01:18:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE15106566B for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paulbeard@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB398FC16 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iagz16 with SMTP id z16so2542005iag.13 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:18:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:mime-version:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to:cc :references:message-id:x-mailer; bh=f9lpwUK0UJATW6/YbMhYJmSsd2KZr5MMcIPaof3tdGk=; b=PC5LdBtyrehBcbSFVvWTp2tMLL/zw5nKPpLSlVGdZ/H6Y9aQF/A2imU4X9mI15VCu2 daq+nYjJf7OtNAGxZVzJB/9rWhil0Ss2CubnhptkbNR5j2YBpCbR/kBNpbBil+ygvcTm FEebyFu/x63o4QnwJQCOfOg9JPQP7GPdYzfwc= Received: by 10.50.183.199 with SMTP id eo7mr6939252igc.5.1326590334203; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:18:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ivoire.paulbeard.org (174-21-126-117.tukw.qwest.net. [174.21.126.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h9sm47058878ibh.11.2012.01.14.17.18.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:18:51 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Beard Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_33839377-F65C-42B1-87D3-236E5F34AB84"; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:18:48 -0800 In-Reply-To: <7325D262-C6EB-42DB-870D-D3E2FAC9D0C1@mac.com> References: <0F82362E-2694-4EBC-B019-DE2F2C160D45@gmail.com> <7325D262-C6EB-42DB-870D-D3E2FAC9D0C1@mac.com> Message-Id: <1954AA20-BE6F-4F04-A770-49ECFA405B5D@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:18:55 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_33839377-F65C-42B1-87D3-236E5F34AB84 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Anyway, doesn't the mysql port want to keep the socket under = /var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock or some such, to avoid issues with /tmp? Turns out some applications won't work if you move the socket if they = are configured to access localhost. Seems like a misunderstanding of = networking if you can specify a port number in a configuration file but = the application looks to the filesystem for the socket. There is no way = to specify a file location so it seems doomed to fail =97 as it did.=20 The apps in question are net-mgmt/cacti and net-mgmt/cacti-spine.=20 -- Paul Beard Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?=20 --Apple-Mail=_33839377-F65C-42B1-87D3-236E5F34AB84--