Thanks! I was going nuts trying to figure out where that /tmp/mysql.sock was coming from. One small piece of further help please: How do I create the symlink? I've done this before and my recollection is that it is a simple command 2-4 characters long but that its name is not intuitive. My documentation shows that words with *link* in them tend to be include files for C programs. My RH 6.1 Bible does not mention symlink nor symbolik link nor alias, etc. for about a dozen different words I thought of.

Do you know if the people in charge of DBI/DBD have any plans to make this a parameter? My recollection is that both MySQL and DBI use /tmp/mysql.sock. I had to go throiugh this process before just to het mysql to work from the command prompt. I have no idea where the /var/... socket came from.

Regards,
Gary

The UNIX command you're looking for is ln -s ..... But you have to delete the existing socket first to replace it with a symlink, or use the additional option -f

<per>-- Brigitte 'I never met a chocolate I didnt like' Jellinek http://www.horus.com/~bjelli/ http://perlwelt.horus.at

Cool beans...:)

I feel better now.

the command you are looking for would be ln
Snipped from the man page..

NAME
     ln - make links

SYNOPSIS
     ln [-fs] file [link_name]
     ln [-fs] file ... [directory]

DESCRIPTION
     The ln utility creates a new directory entry, i.e. a new name in 
+the
     filesystem.  There are two types of links: hard links and symboli
+c links.
....
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