Problem solved....

that "d" that was missing was the source of all my problems.

Thank you all for your help! :)

Pedro

Jon Baker wrote:

Can you see a file located at /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock?

What is the contents of my.cnf?

On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Pedro Vieira wrote:

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I have mysql running and I can log in from command line, make queries both from command line and external software (apache+php)...

Jon Baker wrote:

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What happens if you type mysql at the command line?

On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Pedro Vieira wrote:

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Already did it... now i have this error:

dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database dovecot: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2)

I already have smoke comming out of my head.... :S

Jon Baker wrote:

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Um... uncomment your socket line perhaps?

On Apr 27, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Pedro Vieira wrote:

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db_host = localhost db_port = 3306 #db_unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock db = mydovecotdb db_user = mydovecotuser db_passwd = mydbpasswd db_client_flags = 0