database apps that ignore sockets? [was: Solution: mysqld fails to run, can't create/find mysql.sock]

[Paul Beard]

On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Anyway, doesn't the mysql port want to keep the socket under /var/run/mysql/mysqld.sock or some such, to avoid issues with /tmp?


Turns out some applications won't work if you move the socket if they are configured to access localhost. Seems like a misunderstanding of networking if you can specify a port number in a configuration file but the application looks to the filesystem for the socket. There is no way to specify a file location so it seems doomed to fail — as it did. 

The apps in question are net-mgmt/cacti and net-mgmt/cacti-spine. 
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Paul Beard

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