Friends,

I don't know how use DBI to connect to a MySQL database that uses the default /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock file. I can connect with the mysql command line client like so ... 

$ mysql -u plankton -p --socket=/somewhere/mysql/mysql.sock

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... so I thought I could do the same sort of thing in mysq script ... 
#perl -w
...
my %attr = ( socket => '/somewhere/mysql/mysql.sock' );
my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:$db:$server", $user, $pw, \%attr );
...

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The script fails with this output: 
DBI connect( 'blah:localhost', 'blah', ... ) failed: Can't connect to 
+local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' ...

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I guess %attr is not the way to go? What should my connect statement look like?

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In reply to How do I specify the MySQL socket file? by Plankton

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