Don't you hate it when you have a missing sock?
I'm hoping there's someone (anyone!) who knows FreeBSD who can advise me how to recreate the MySql socket file in its default location (in my case, in /tmp/mysql.sock). Seems my /var partition got over-full last night and evidently brought down the server. I guess that was the cause; I can't see any other.
Since last night, I haven't been able to restart MySql. This effects of my sites, since most of my content now runs on Drupal, which requires MySql. One of the things that I did today was move MySql data files to my /usr partition, where there's more room, with a sym link to its default location at /var/db/mysql; careful to chown the directory and files to the user mysql. I also tried deinstalling and then reinstalling MySql from ports, hoping that would resurrect the socket, but no go. I've googled and scoured the mysql.com, to no avail. If there is an answer out there (and there undoubtedly is, I haven't been able to find it.)
Any suggestions would be sincerely appreciated. I know there are a lot of a number of subscribers here who are more expert than me with MySql.
I'd really like to get this thing back ASAP, if possible, not just for my own site, but also for the benefit of the people and organizations who relying on me as a host.
Many thanks.
Tom