[Koha] Trouble with MySQL, DBI/DBD::mysql

[Chris Cormack]

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> In summary, I cannot make mysqld_safe listen at anything other than 
> /tmp/mysql.sock and I cannot make perl DBI/DBD::mysql attempt to connect 
> anywhere other than /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock .
> 
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> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Hi Chris

In your /etc/my.cnf is skip-networking set on, if you turn this off you 
could get mysql listening on the network, and then connect to it with a 
tcp socket, rather than a unix one.

Chris