Re: [tlug] MySQL behaving strangely

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Turns out MySQL is not quite as solved as I had hoped. After rebooting 
> since last time it seemed to be fixed, it stopped working again.
>
> I've narrowed down the problem, and even sort of have a solution, but 
> I don't know if it's the right one.
>
> When I boot, all I have to do is run this command:
>
> ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

Setting up a symlink is a bit of a hack that might have worked, but 
apparently didn't work very well.  The clean way to fix this would be to 
correctly set the socket location for php.  This[1] thread seem to 
suggest it is a setting in php.ini

Edward

1. http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=61714&page=2