Re: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)

Arthur,

the Error 13 means Permission Denied. check the ownership of the sock file, is 
should be owned by the "mysql" user if owned by 'root', then this maybe causing 
your problems.

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur H Wakida" <ahwakida@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <perl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:29 PM
Subject: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)


OS RH Enterprise V4 (kernel 2.5.9-5.EL), Perl 5.8.5, DBI-1.46, 
DBD-MySQL-2.9004-3.1, MySQL 4.1.7 installed

I can access/update MySQL db via webmin (port 10000) and SQLyog (port 3306) 
without any problem.

When I try to connect to MySQL db via ;
    my $hndl = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database", $user, $password) or 
db_err("Unable to contect to $database", $DBI::errstr);

I get the following message : "Can't connect to local MySQL server through 
socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)"

Socket in question does exist in /var/lib/mysql and all directories involved is 
completely open (777).  I've other servers up
and running without any problem (albeit different versions).  Did I miss 
something?  Any help/ideas is greatly appreciated!


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