That's what it seems like to me too, but the socket path in the database for Cacti is "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock". I don't see an option in any of the Cacti config files that would allow me to point it elsewhere other than what is noted in that database and the Cacti folk claim it isn't their issue but a PHP one.
From: Jonathan Sundquist [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 2:25 PM
To: Stormont, Stephen (IMS)
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Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Symbolic link needed with mysql and PHP?
Sorry I meant to say your database config within the Cacti application. From the link that I sent previously it makes me think its looking for the socket to be in /tmp
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Stormont, Stephen (IMS) <***@imsweb.com<mailto:***@imsweb.com>> wrote:
mysql> status
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mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.61, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1
Connection id: 16
Current database:
Current user: ***@localhost
SSL: Not in use
Current pager: stdout
Using outfile: ''
Using delimiter: ;
Server version: 5.1.61 Source distribution
Protocol version: 10
Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server characterset: latin1
Db characterset: latin1
Client characterset: latin1
Conn. characterset: latin1
UNIX socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime: 50 min 29 sec
From: Jonathan Sundquist [mailto:***@gmail.com<mailto:***@gmail.com>]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 2:18 PM
To: Stormont, Stephen (IMS)
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Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Symbolic link needed with mysql and PHP?
When you look at your database configuration where does it say the socket is located?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Stormont, Stephen (IMS) <***@imsweb.com<mailto:***@imsweb.com>> wrote:
I followed those steps which is what led us to the creation of the symbolic link, but I was attempting to find out why we would even need to do that. Was there some option that we missed at build time for PHP that would have bypassed this issue?
From: Jonathan Sundquist [mailto:***@gmail.com<mailto:***@gmail.com>]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 2:11 PM
To: Stormont, Stephen (IMS)
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Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Symbolic link needed with mysql and PHP?
A quick google search turned up a few answers that might help you,
http://docs.cacti.net/manual:087:4_help.1_faq#database_setup_seems_to_fail
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Stormont, Stephen (IMS) <***@imsweb.com<mailto:***@imsweb.com>> wrote:
We have a new CentOS installation using PHP5 and MySQL. We were having an issue getting Cacti running, but the problem appears to boil down to a PHP issue.
When attempting to access Cacti via the web, we got this error:
FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'. Please make sure you have specified a valid MySQL database name in 'include/config.php'
We checked config.php and everything is configured correctly.
We then looked at "my.cnf" and saw this line:
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Running "netstat -an | grep mysql" says the following:
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 11035 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
However, we have to create a symbolic link in /tmp in order to be able to get to the Cacti config screen:
ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock mysql.sock
Why do we have to do this though?
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