mysql.sock moved and cannot be found by freeradius !

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Nicolas Baradakis wrote:

> > If you are going to make a change in freeradius to cope with this don't 
> > waste time trying to read the my.cnf file as you wont know where it is 
> > with any certainty.
> 
> This is a one-line-change in FreeRADIUS: we just tell to the libmysqlclient
> to search and read the file "my.cnf" in its own predefined locations.

There is no predefined location. That's the problem that the original 
poster has run into - you can have the files anywhere you like and people 
do.

> > Instead have a section in the sql.conf to specify the mysql socket file.
> 
> We may run into the same problem later with a different option: I don't
> want to have an entry for each and every Mysql specific option in the
> file "sql.conf".

And how many sql options are appropriate? It's only those needed for a 
client connection and other than socket file location they are already all 
present as options in the sql.conf file.

It seems counter to good practice (ie keep it simple) to make things more 
complicated than simply adding an option to the file you already use to 
configure the sql connection and options.

Jason Clifford
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