title: How do I specify the MySQL sock file location for thinking sphinx?
body: <p>My socket file is located here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>rake thinking_sphinx:start
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>rake aborted!
  Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to tell thinking_sphinx where my socket file is. How is this possible?  This issue appeared after performing a hard reboot of my slice on Slicehost.</p>