Dear Jay:
Thanks! I was going nuts trying to figure out where that /tmp/mysql.sock was coming from. One small piece of further help please: How do I create the symlink? I've done this before and my recollection is that it is a simple command 2-4 characters long but that its name is not intuitive. My documentation shows that words with *link* in them tend to be include files for C programs. My RH 6.1 Bible does not mention symlink nor symbolik link nor alias, etc. for about a dozen different words I thought of.
Do you know if the people in charge of DBI/DBD have any plans to make this a parameter? My recollection is that both MySQL and DBI use /tmp/mysql.sock. I had to go throiugh this process before just to het mysql to work from the command prompt. I have no idea where the /var/... socket came from.
Regards,
Gary