[rt-users] Specifying driver options in rt3 DSNs

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "IG" == Ian Grant <Ian.Grant at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

IG> I'm using RT 3.0.0 with MySQL with the socket /local/own-1/rt/mysql.sock and 
IG> 'make initialize-database' is failing because the driver expects the socket to 
IG> be in /tmp I want to specify a mysql_socket option in the DSN. What is the 
IG> easiest way to achieve this, I wonder?

The easiest way is to specify the alternate socket when building
mysql, so that the alternate path is hard-coded into the client libs.
that's what I used to do...

i suppose you could specify it in the my.cnf or perhaps an environment
variable.  dunno about those, though.