On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:19 +0000, Charles Bradshaw wrote: > On: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:29:56 -0500, Adam wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 15:42 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > > > IIRC MySQL tries to use an UNIX socket instead of TCP for connecting to > > > the server when it sees the "localhost" string. If e.g. sendmail runs > > > chrooted, then it won't see the MySQL server's socket, therefore it > > > won't be able to connect. > > What happens if, instead of the literal "localhost", you say > > "127.0.0.1". Hi-jacking the localhost string seems wrong, but it might > > be accepted/well-known behavior at this point. And possibly buried > > in the MySQL library [and not in SASL; in fact, I'd wager that is true. > > Shortcuts and general funny-business is pretty much MySQL's primary > > prerogative]. > Yes 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost works... it's down to somebodies ghost in > the machine then! <rant> No, don't blame the ghosts, they are innocent. This behavior is the fault of an idjit; somebody very much alive built that behavior into libmysql, believing they were being clever. This HACK has cost hours to innumerable people who assume what is in a config file means what it obviously should mean - only it doesn't. </rant> -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
