From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T09:11:58+09:00
Subject: Re: .yml/host: localhost fails in Rails app generation

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Richard Lionheart wrote:

> The generated database.yml file in depot\config contains several entries of 
> "socket: /path/to/your/mysql.sock".  I couldn't find an "mysql.sock" file 
> anywhere  on my system.

Maybe because it issn't a file?

srwxrwxrwx   1 mysql    staff          0 Nov 11 18:07 /tmp/mysql.sock
srwxrwxrwx   1 mysql    staff          0 Nov 11 18:07 /tmp/mysql4.sock

man ls gives:
     d	   The entry is	a directory.
     [...]
     s	   The entry is	an AF_UNIX address family socket.

in the find man page:
     -type c
	   True	if the type of the file	is c, where c is b, c, d,
	   D,  f,  l,  p,  or s	for block special file,	character
	   special file, directory, door,  plain  file,	 symbolic
	   link, fifo (named pipe), or socket, respectively.

And [cf your later message] don't put the MySQL root password in the
yaml file, it gives those snooping too much power over your
databases.

        HTH
        Hugh