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[Tony Miller]

Ryan,

The combination of editing the my.cnf file and changing the default socket to match the MacPort location and changing the permissions to mysql:mysql again per the MAMP installation instructions seems to have done the trick. It's running again. 

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

Tony Miller
tmiller at thehawkeye.com

On Mar 22, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Mar 22, 2011, at 15:12, Tony Miller wrote:
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>> I haven't messed with the my.cnf file. I've found:
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>> /private/etc/my.cnf, which is the file OS X uses by default.
> 
> "OS X" does not use my.cnf. MySQL does.
> 
> MacPorts MySQL will use that file, if it's there.
> 
> 
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/databases/mysql4/files/my.cnf
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> Not relevant.
> 
> 
>> When I try to connect to mysql5 -u root -p I get:
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>> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
>> 
>> Is that the correct socket or does MacPorts use an alternate socket and or my.cnf file?
> 
> There are many locations where MySQL will look for my.cnf; consult the MySQL documentation.
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> The default socket location for MacPorts MySQL is /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
> 
> Perhaps you have specified the alternate socket location in your my.cnf, and should remove that specification so that the default location above is used again.
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>