Problem accessing MySQL from PHP

Hi all, I am having problems accessing MySQL, any hints would be appreciated: Trying to access MySQl from the command line as root or mysql works fine. As "nobody" it gives me the following: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) Trying to access MySQL from a PHP script gives me a similar message: Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) After trying a few things the following works from the command line: $ su nobody $ mysql -h 127.0.0.1 MySQL comes up and I have access to all the databases. I changed from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" in the PHP script and now do not get the warning but the connection still does not work. Any help would be very welcome /maxman ------- Possibly useful information: the first line of /etc/hosts is: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain ------- ls -l /var/lib/mysql gives in part the following: -rw------- 1 mysql mysql 15959 May 11 12:39 localhost.localdomain.err -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 8448 May 11 14:30 localhost.log -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 4 May 11 12:39 localhost.pid drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 1024 May 11 12:03 mysql srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 May 11 12:39 mysql.sock ------- mysqladmin Ver 8.0 Distrib 3.22.32, for pc-linux-gnu on i686 TCX Datakonsult AB, by Monty Server version 3.22.32-log Protocol version 10 Connection Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Uptime: 2 hours 7 min 9 sec Threads: 6 Questions: 26 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 8 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 4 +----------------------------+------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +----------------------------+------------------------------+ | back_log | 5 | | connect_timeout | 5 | | basedir | / | | datadir | /var/lib/mysql/ | | delayed_insert_limit | 100 | | delayed_insert_timeout | 300 | | delayed_queue_size | 1000 | | join_buffer | 131072 | | flush_time | 0 | | key_buffer | 16773120 | | language | /usr/share/mysql/english/ | | log | ON | | log_update | OFF | | long_query_time | 10 | | low_priority_updates | OFF | | max_allowed_packet | 1047552 | | max_connections | 100 | | max_connect_errors | 10 | | max_delayed_insert_threads | 20 | | max_join_size | 4294967295 | | max_sort_length | 1024 | | max_write_lock_count | 4294967295 | | net_buffer_length | 16384 | | pid_file | /var/lib/mysql/localhost.pid | | port | 3306 | | protocol_version | 10 | | record_buffer | 131072 | | skip_locking | ON | | skip_networking | OFF | | socket | /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock | | sort_buffer | 2097144 | | table_cache | 64 | | thread_stack | 131072 | | tmp_table_size | 1048576 | | tmpdir | /tmp/ | | version | 3.22.32-log | | wait_timeout | 28800 | +----------------------------+------------------------------+ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/