Hi, Sorry if this question in answered somewhere in the documentation...but I'm trying to connect to a MySQL database which is on another machine. When I connect to MySQL via the command line I type the following and it works fine: 
> mysql -h rat -u indapa -p

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But if I want to connect to my database in Perl via DBI with the following code:

#!/user/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;

my $dsn = 'dbi:mysql:genedb';
my $user = 'indapa';
my $password = '*****';

my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$user,$password) or die $DBI:errstr, "\n";

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I get the following error when I run it: 
DBI connect('aindap','aindap',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQ
+L server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) at .//exon_qu
+ery.pl line 31
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mys
+ql.sock' (2)

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I know there is a way to do this, but I can't seem to figure it out. Your help is appreciated.

In reply to connecting to MySQL on a different machine via DBI by indapa

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