/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

hi php-db, i'm trying to set up php4, mysql & apache on a debian 2.2 box. everything seems to work ok until i try and connect to mysql via php. then i get the following error message. Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) in common.php on line 79 fyi - line 79 looks like this... $db = mysql_connect($CONF["dbhost"], $CONF["dbuser"], $CONF["dbpass"]); ...and is passing valid arguments. it seems like a pretty straight-forward error, but... mysql is using /tmp/mysql.sock to dump the socket information. both the 'my.cnf' file and 'mysqld variables' confirm this. i can't find any trace of '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' in any of the config files for php, mysql, apache, or the startup scripts 'safe_mysqld' or 'mysql.server' [whose defaults should be over ridden by my.cnf anyways, right?], so i don't understand where php is getting this path from. any ideas? thanks pablo