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

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Paul Beard wrote:
> 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. 

Something looking for a network location specified as a host and port (ie, localhost:3306) is using a TCP socket.  Something looking for /tmp/mysqld.sock is using a UNIX domain socket.

Changing the path to the UNIX domain socket will have no effect upon the port used by the TCP socket, or vice versa.

Regards,
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-Chuck