In the last episode (Mar 20), Edson Noboru Yamada said:
> I have a single machine with 2 mysql instances running. One of them
> was started like this:
>
> /home/y/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/home/mysql --datadir=/var/mysql/data --pid-file=/var/mysql/mysqld.pid --port=3306 --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock
>
> and, the other one, like this:
>
> /home/y/libexec/mysqld --defaults-extra-file=/var/app/data/my.cnf --basedir=/home/mysql --datadir=/var/app/data --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld.pid --port=3382 --socket=/tmp/app_mysql.sock
>
> However, when I try to access the second instance using "mysql -u root
> -P3382", I land on the first instance. Why?

-P is only used when connecting to non-localhost addresses. Try adding
"-h 127.0.0.1" to your commandline.

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