Hi. I've been trying to run update_versions, but I can't connect to the mysql database because boinc is looking in the wrong directory for the socket. (It's looking for unix:///var/mysql/mysql.sock, while mysql puts the socket in /tmp/mysql.sock. How do I set it so that boinc looks in the correct directory? Thanks.
-Maia

EDIT: I have added
[client]
socket=/tmp/mysql.sock

to the my.cnf file, but boinc is still not able to connect to mysql

update_versions is a PHP script which uses php's builtin mysql_* and/or mysqli_* functions. So BOINC by itself is not interested in the location of the socket. Can you provide the whole commandline and error message?

Never mind, I fixed it by adding the line
[client]
socket=/tmp/mysql.sock

in the php.ini file