On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, George wrote:
fishy.
if you use mysql on localhost, then why force all kinds of strange
options to exim (thus libmysqlclient), when the defaults will just be
fine for you ?
> MYSQL_AUTHSERVER=localhost
> MYSQL_AUTHPORT=3306
this at the very least suggests you want it to connect over a tcp
socket
> mysql_servers =
> "MYSQL_AUTHSERVER::MYSQL_AUTHPORT/MYSQL_AUTHDB/MYSQL_AUTHUSER/MYSQL_AUTHPASS
can't comment that, never tried this way
> MYSQL connection failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
> socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)
this clearly suggests exim (libmysqlclient, actually) wants to connect
over a unix domain socket.
> > mysql -u exim -peximpass
how does `mysql' connect ?
do you have only one mysql installed ? server and library as well ? if
not, are you using the correct library ? does it know the correct
location for the socket ? what if you specify a socket-to-use by hand
(as for the syntax i'm afraid you'll have to dig that for yourself
from exim's *and* libmysqlclient's source) ?
what if you just skip the host/port/socketpath part altogether ? it
goes like:
hide mysql_servers = "/MYSQL_AUTHDB/MYSQL_AUTHUSER/MYSQL_AUTHPASS"
you'd better not be lazy and *do* write the quotation marks. further
info on as to why is in libmysqlclient's source.
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