On Mon 03 May, Solomon Mutai wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am new in the field and am really interested in this list. To introduce myself, I am a systems librarian in Moi University, Kenya. Most of the institutions heve not automated their libraries.
I was installing Koha and I just landed in a problem with mysql.socket. It keeps disappearing from where it ought to be: /var/lib/mysql/
I am using SuSe Linux version 9.0; could someone tell me how to protect this? I have tried all means but I keep on loosing it and therefore have not managed to
The first version of Linux I used was Red Hat. I was not happy with it or the next version I tried (Mandake). I then bought Suse 9 which was *immeasurably* better in my view. YAST, the Suse system of loading software, seemed to me to be so much better than any of the other systems (except Debian which I have not tried). And the inclusion of printed manuals was an advantage. But so far as MySQL is concerned it just does not work. I have tried loading it, and reloading it, and I get the same sort of symptom that you refer to (save that I do not get the socket at all). The cure so far as I was concerned was not to use YAST but to go to the MySQL site and download a RPM file and to install that according to the instructions in the online manual: the socket appeared in the appropriate file. I asked Suse and they said that this was not something covered by their support program and that I was on my own. Since they are trying to suggest that they are the real replacement for MS this seems to me to be a bit stupid, quite apart from presumably being a bug. Roger -- Roger Horne, 11 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3QB mailto:roger@hrothgar.co.uk http://hrothgar.co.uk/YAWS/