[chef] Re: Unable to connect to the mysql database server

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, Anthony Kong wrote:

> But I am unable to login:
>
> mysql -u mysql -p
> Enter password:
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

Seems like your mysql binary assumes the socket is in this location 
whereas your recipe set up my.cnf to have the socket in 
/run/mysql-default/mysqld.sock .

- Julian