perlquestion logan I've been bashing my head against this wall for two days and making no progress. I have a mysql database on a local Linux server and I'm trying to connect using DBI. The socket location is nonstandard. Instead of "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock", it's "/usr/kasenna/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock". <p> From the command line, I can connect using DBI:<p> <code>mysql -S /usr/kasenna/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock -u root --password=password</code>. <p> When I try to duplicate that using DBI:<p> <code>my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:database=nemo;socket=/usr/kasenna/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock', 'nemo','password')</code> <br> or <code> my %attr; $attr{socket} = "/usr/kasenna/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock"; my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:nemo', 'nemo', 'password', \%attr); </code>I get the following error:<br> <code>Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)</code> <p> I'm pretty sure that the problem stems from trying to pass the non-standard socket location, but I can't figure out how to pass that in the connect statement. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-150245"> <p> -Logan<br> "What do I want? I'm an American. I want more." </div></div>