I've been bashing my head against this wall for two days and making no progress. I have a mysql database on a local Linux server and I'm trying to connect using DBI. The socket location is nonstandard. Instead of "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock", it's "/usr/kasenna/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock". From the command line, I can connect using DBI: mysql -S /usr/kasenna/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock -u root --password=passwo