Re: php cli and mysql

From:	Tom Ray [Lists]	Date:	Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:56:01 +0000
Subject:	Re: php cli and mysql
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Roman Neuhauser wrote:

# cajbecu@gmail.com / 2006-11-14 20:17:16 +0200:
On 11/14/06, James Tu <jtu@esidesign.com> wrote:
    I'm running a php script from the command line (I'm on OS X) and I'm
getting ... Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
      
touch /var/mysql/mysql.sock chmod 777 /var/mysql/mysql.sock
    

How could that possibly help? Because if the mysql.sock file is missing the mysql server won't start. If the mysql server isn't running the PHP script won't work. So I think it helps a lot.