Re: [tlug] Default Mysql configuration files; PHP database . . . . . . . . (was Re: Socket error when connecting to MySQL)

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

TLUG,

Wait! Nobody move or touch anything! It's working again!

After a rather exhaustive web search, with a fair amount of luck 
involved, I discovered that there was, installed already on my system, 
an example configuration file called my-small.cnf in 
/usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.0/examples/

So, I copied it over to /etc/mysql/my.cnf, and rebooted for good measure 
(I know, I could have just restarted MySQL, but old Windows habits die 
hard).

And now all is good.
PHP scripts working? Check.
phpMyAdmin working? Check.
Zend working? Check. Well...

There is one last thing. To make Zend happy (and if I had just done this 
at the beginning, I would have avoided all this chaos), I created a 
symlink to the mysqld.sock file:
sudo ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock mysql.sock

But, it seems that whenever I reboot, the symlink goes away. I guess 
because the mysqld.sock file is created each time the MySQL server 
starts (?).

So... Is there a way I can make the symlink stick?

--
Dave M G