Did location of mysql.sock change in mysql5.0.37?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 5, 2007, at 22:02, Bakki Kudva wrote:

> On 5/3/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> The MacPorts MySQL socket has never been in /tmp, to the best of my
>> knowledge. The official binary distribution of MySQL from http://
>> dev.mysql.com does use that location, however.
>>
>> When using the MacPorts php5 port with the MacPorts mysql5 port, they
>> "just work." PHP knows where the MySQL socket is. I don't use Ruby,
>> but I would have hoped that MacPorts Ruby would also "just work" with
>> MacPorts MySQL.
>
> I am stumped now because the same upgrade on a MacBookPro seems to
> work fine. So something went awry when I upgraded the iMac. I just did
> a port -u update and didn't get any errors.

Perhaps on one machine you have a my.cnf file and on the other you  
don't? Or you have my.cnf files on both machines but they contain  
different instructions?